High latitude coupled sea-ice-air thermodynamics

• Main Author: Swick, William A.
• Other Authors: Garwood, Roland W., Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)., Oceanography, Guest, Arlene
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2004
• Subjects: Thermodynamics; Ice; Arctic regions; Greenland; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Garwood; Greenland Sea; Sea ice; Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/1328

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...