Wave-Ice Interaction in the Marginal Ice Zone: Toward a Wave-Ocean-Ice Coupled Modeling System
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The WAVEWATCH III model (Tolman 1991, Tolman et al. 2002, Tolman 2009) is a phase-averaged wave model solved by integrating the wave action conservation equation. Local rates of change of wave spectral density is determined by advection in four dimensions (two geographic and two spectral dimensions) and source terms representing various dynamic processes, such as energy transfer from the wind, and energy lost due to wave breaking. The approach in WAVEWATCH III (“WW3”) version 3 (Tolman 2009) was to represent the effect of ice on waves as part of the advection, such that under partial ice cover, wave energy is partially blocked, with linear scaling of the blocked fraction according to ice concentration (Tolman 2003). This is a practical approach for an operational model,
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