Modeling ice-ocean interaction in ice-shelf crevasses

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 995-1008

  Jordan, James R ^a   Holland, Paul R ^a   Jenkins, Adrian ^a   Piggott, Matthew D ^b   Kimura, Satoshi ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

basal crevasse; frazil ice; ice shelf

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUIDITY; FREEZING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BASAL CREVASSE; FINITE-ELEMENT OCEAN MODELS; FRAZIL ICE; ICE SHELVES; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

ICE;

COLD WATER; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CREVASSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREEZING; ICE SHELF; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; MELTWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; STABILIZATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84900172848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009208     Document Type: Article

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