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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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
2006
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Online Access: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/125986/1/2006GL026290.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/125986/ |
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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