Sea ice is a mushy layer

[1] 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 sh...

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Published in:Geophysical Research Letters
Main Authors: Feltham, D. L., Untersteiner, N., Wettlaufer, J. S., Worster, M. G.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union 2006
Subjects:
Sea ice
Online Access:https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/34911/
https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/34911/1/grl21578.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL026290
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Summary:[1] 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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