Desalination processes of sea ice revisited
We reexamine five processes that have been suggested to be important for the loss of salt from sea ice. These processes are the initial fractionation of salt at the ice-ocean interface, brine diffusion, brine expulsion, gravity drainage, and flushing with surface meltwater. We present results from a...
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ftpubman:oai:pure.mpg.de:item_993947 2023-08-27T04:11:54+02:00 Desalination processes of sea ice revisited Notz, D. Worster, G. 2009-05 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-F7F4-C http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-4827-9 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1029/2008JC004885 http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-F7F4-C http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-4827-9 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2009 ftpubman https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JC004885 2023-08-02T01:19:28Z We reexamine five processes that have been suggested to be important for the loss of salt from sea ice. These processes are the initial fractionation of salt at the ice-ocean interface, brine diffusion, brine expulsion, gravity drainage, and flushing with surface meltwater. We present results from analytical and numerical studies, as well as from laboratory and field experiments, that show that, among these processes, only gravity drainage and flushing contribute to any measurable net loss of salt. We show that during ice growth the salinity field is continuous across the ice-ocean interface. Hence there is no immediate segregation of salt at the advancing front. [References: 52] Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice Max Planck Society: MPG.PuRe Journal of Geophysical Research 114 C5 |
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We reexamine five processes that have been suggested to be important for the loss of salt from sea ice. These processes are the initial fractionation of salt at the ice-ocean interface, brine diffusion, brine expulsion, gravity drainage, and flushing with surface meltwater. We present results from analytical and numerical studies, as well as from laboratory and field experiments, that show that, among these processes, only gravity drainage and flushing contribute to any measurable net loss of salt. We show that during ice growth the salinity field is continuous across the ice-ocean interface. Hence there is no immediate segregation of salt at the advancing front. [References: 52] |
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