Teardrop and Parabolic Lens Yield Curves for Viscous‐Plastic Sea Ice Models: New Constitutive Equations and Failure Angles

• Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
• Main Authors: Ringeisen, Damien, Losch, Martin, Tremblay, L Bruno
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Teardrop; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/57940/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/57940/1/ringeisen-etal2023_td.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2023ms003613; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.5df98125-071c-4dd1-9235-58c55d5bc105

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Most viscous‐plastic sea ice models use the elliptical yield curve. This yield curve has a fundamental flaw: it excludes acute angles between deformation features at high resolution. Conceptually, the teardrop (TD) and parabolic lens (PL) yi...