Level-ice melt ponds in the Los Alamos sea ice model, CICE

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 26-42

  Hunke, Elizabeth C ^a   Hebert, David A ^b   Lecomte, Olivier ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Albedo; Arctic; Melt ponds; Modeling; Ridging; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ARCTIC; CONTROL SIMULATION; MELT PONDS; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PROCESS DESCRIPTIONS; RIDGING; SENSITIVITY TESTS;

DRAINAGE; INFILTRATION; MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; PONDS; SEA ICE; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION;

LAKES;

ALBEDO; ICE FLOW; ICE THICKNESS; MELTING; MELTWATER; MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; TRACER;

EID: 84885859556     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2012.11.008     Document Type: Article

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