Sea ice is a mushy layer

Feltham, D. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2289-014X, Untersteiner, N., Wettlaufer, J. S. and Worster, M. G. (2006) Sea ice is a mushy layer. Geophysical Research Letters, 33 (14). L14501. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: 10.1029/2006GL026290

Abstract/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.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/34911
Identification Number/DOI	10.1029/2006GL026290
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Publisher	American Geophysical Union
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