Ocean Circulation: Its Effects on Seasonal Sea-Ice Simulations
- 4 May 1984
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 224 (4648) , 489-492
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.224.4648.489
Abstract
A diagnostic ice-ocean model of the Arctic, Greenland, and Norwegian seas is constructed and used to examine the role of ocean circulation in seasonal sea-ice simulations. The model includes lateral ice motion and three-dimensional ocean circulation. The ocean portion of the model is weakly forced by observed temperature and salinity data. Simulation results show that including modeled ocean circulation in seasonal sea-ice simulations substantially improves the predicted ice drift and ice margin location. Simulations that do not include lateral ocean movement predict a much less realistic ice edge.Keywords
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