Insights into brine dynamics and sea ice desalination from a 1-D model study of gravity drainage

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3370-3386

  Griewank, Philipp J ^a,b   Notz, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

Author keywords

binary alloy solidification; brine fluxes; desalination; gravity drainage; sea ice; thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DESALINATION; OPTIMIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER FILTRATION;

ALLOY SOLIDIFICATION; CONVECTIVE PARAMETRIZATION; DEPTH DEPENDENTS; GRAVITY DRAINAGE; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; OPTIMAL ESTIMATES; OPTIMIZING MODELS; PARAMETRIZATIONS;

SEA ICE;

ALLOY; BOUNDARY CONDITION; BRINE; DESALINATION; DRAINAGE; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84885166408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20247     Document Type: Article

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