The Granular Sea Ice Model in Spherical Coordinates and Its Application to a Global Climate Model

• Main Authors: Jan Sedlacek, Jean-françois Lemieux, Lawrence, A. Mysak, L. Bruno Tremblay, David M. Holland
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Tremblay; Beaufort Sea; Fram Strait; Sea ice; Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.538.321; http://www.esmg.mcgill.ca/jan_paper/Sedlaceketal_J.Clim_2007.pdf

The granular sea ice model (GRAN) from Tremblay and Mysak is converted from Cartesian to spherical coordinates. In this conversion, the metric terms in the divergence of the deviatoric stress and in the strain rates are included. As an application, the GRAN is coupled to the global Earth System Clim...