15: An Arctic Ice/Ocean Coupled Model with Wave Interactions
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– further our understanding of the hydrodynamical interactions between polar oceans and sea ice, especially with regard to the marginal ice zone (MIZ), i.e. the typically 10–100 km wide m ́elange of ice floes that connects open sea to the interior pack ice; – model the attenuation and spreading of directional seas within and in the waters adjoining MIZs, using a conservative, multiple wave scattering approach in a medium with random geometrical properties that can be specified by means of remote sensing data products and supplementary cognate data sets; – devise a user-friendly parametrization of directional wave spreading in the presence of sea ice, to be integrated into operational wave and ice/ocean models, and refine the existing parametrization of ocean wave attenuation to one based on 2D multiple scattering as opposed to a 1D paradigm constrained to the primary wave vector; – model the effect of realistic ocean wave spectra on the structural integrity of the Arctic ice cover; – explore whether ocean waves are systematically refracted as they enter MIZs, a contemporary open question that is equivocal in current data sets; – investigate new parametrizations for dissipative mechanical processes within the MIZ that account
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An Arctic Ice/Ocean Coupled Model with Wave Interactions
– further our understanding of the hydrodynamical interactions between polar oceans and sea ice; – develop new theoretical models and numerical methods with applications to other areas of science; – model attenuation and directional wave propagation within and in the waters adjoining the marginal ice zone (MIZ), using the conservative multiple wave scattering approach in a medium with random ge...
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