Sea ice volume and age: Sensitivity to physical parameterizations and thickness resolution in the CICE sea ice model

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 82, Issue , 2014, Pages 45-59

  Hunke, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Arctic; Resolution; Rheology; Sea ice; Volume

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DRAG COEFFICIENT; ELASTICITY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARAMETERIZATION; RHEOLOGY; SEA ICE; THICKNESS CONTROL;

AGE; ARCTIC; REALISTIC SIMULATION; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; THERMODYNAMIC PROCESS; THICKNESS RESOLUTION; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE; VOLUME; ICE VOLUMES; SEA ICE MODELING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

AGE DETERMINATION; DRAG COEFFICIENT; ICE THICKNESS; MODELING; RHEOLOGY; SEA ICE; SHEAR STRESS; THERMODYNAMICS; AGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VOLUME;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84906857225     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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