An unstructured C-grid type variational formulation for the sea ice dynamics

• Main Authors: Capodaglio, Giacomo, Petersen, Mark R., Turner, Adrian K., Roberts, Andrew F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2021
• Subjects: Computational Physics physics.comp-ph; FOS Physical sciences; Curl; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2112.14993; https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14993

Historically, B-grid formulations of sea ice dynamics have been dominant because they have matched the grid type used by ocean models. The reason for the grid match is simple - it facilitates penetration of the curl of ice-ocean stress into the deep ocean with minimal numerical diffusivity because s...