Sea ice is a mushy layer

Sea ice is a two-phase, two-component, reactive porous medium: an example of what is known in other contexts as a mushy layer. The fundamental conservation laws underlying the mathematical description of mushy layers provide a robust foundation for the prediction of sea-ice evolution. Here we show t...

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Main Authors: Feltham, DL, Untersteiner, N, Wettlaufer, JS, Worster, MG
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION 2006
Subjects:
Salinity profile
Model
Solidification
Evolution
Convection
Growth
Alloy
Flow
Melt
Sea ice
Online Access:https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/125986/1/2006GL026290.pdf
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/125986/
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Summary:Sea ice is a two-phase, two-component, reactive porous medium: an example of what is known in other contexts as a mushy layer. The fundamental conservation laws underlying the mathematical description of mushy layers provide a robust foundation for the prediction of sea-ice evolution. Here we show that the general equations describing mushy layers reduce to the model of Maykut and Untersteiner ( 1971) under the same approximations employed therein.

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