Modeling the Floe-Size Distribution to Improve the Prediction of Sea Ice in the Marginal Seas

• Main Author: Bitz, Cecilia M
• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE POLAR SCIENCE CENTER
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *SEA ICE; MODELS; PREDICTIONS; SIZES(DIMENSIONS); FLOE-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; MARGINAL SEAS; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA628070; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA628070

The long-term goal of this project is to improve prediction of sea ice in the marginal seas by simulating the evolution of the floe-size distribution in basin-scale, rheology-type sea ice models. Lateral ablation and sea ice mechanics depend on the size of floes and yet their distribution in present-day models is assumed to be homogeneous in space and constant in time.