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Sea ice is a mushy layer

Feltham, DL; Untersteiner, N; Wettlaufer, JS; Worster, MG; (2006) Sea ice is a mushy layer. Geophysical Research Letters , 33 (14) , Article L14501. 10.1029/2006GL026290. Green open access

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Abstract

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.

Type: Article
Title: Sea ice is a mushy layer
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026290
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006GL026290
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright 2006 by the American Geophysical Union
Keywords: Salinity profile, Model, Solidification, Evolution, Convection, Growth, Alloy, Flow, Melt
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/125986
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