Voronoi Dynamics Simulation of Platelet Sea Ice Growth with Diffusive Heat and Mass Transfer

• Main Author: Wongpan, Pat
• Other Authors: Langhorne, Patricia, Sun, Zhifa
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Otago 2014
• Subjects: Sea Ice; Solid fraction; Voronoi dynamics; Platelet ice; Heat and mass transfer; Simulation; Antarctica; Antarctic; Gough; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4794

Platelet ice is a sea ice type found near an ice shelf. Platelet crystals, which originate in the water column, rise to the surface and deposit under the sea ice cover in a loose layer forming a subice platelet layer. There they grow in the near-surface supercooled water to become frozen into the ic...