High Latitude Coupled Sea-Ice-Air Thermodynamics

• Main Author: Swick, William A.
• Other Authors: NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Thermodynamics; *THERMODYNAMICS; ALGORITHMS; POLAR REGIONS; THESES; KINETIC ENERGY; SALINITY; WATER DISTRIBUTION; OPEN WATER; ICE FORECASTING; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Garwood; Greenland; Greenland Sea; Sea ice; Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA427275; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA427275

Presently ice extent forecast models such as the U.S. Navy Polar Ice Prediction System (PIPS) neglect or treat small-scale thermodynamic processes and entrainment unrealistically. Incorporating better algorithms that include more complete physics of the mixed layer dynamics will allow for improved p...