On the Response of a Sea-Ice Cover to Changes in Surface Temperature
Open Access
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Glaciology
- Vol. 6 (45) , 439-442
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022143000019560
Abstract
The time separation between related extremes in the values of surface temperature and growth rate of a floating ice cover are shown to depend on the mean ice temperature and thickness. A quantity termed the lag coefficient is introduced for which observations from Churchill, Hudson Bay, and Davis, Antarctica, suggest a dependence on temperature but not on geography.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Effect of Finite Heat Content and Thermal Diffusion on the Growth of a Sea-Ice CoverJournal of Glaciology, 1964
- The Thermal Properties of Sea IceJournal of Glaciology, 1963