Sea ice is a mushy layer

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作者
Feltham, D. L.
Untersteiner, N.
Wettlaufer, J. S.
Worster, M. G.
机构
[1] UCL, Dept Earth Sci, Ctr Polar Observat & Modelling, London WC1E 6BT, England
[2] British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge CB3 0ET, England
[3] Univ Washington, Dept Atmospher Sci, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[4] Yale Univ, Dept Geol & Geophys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[5] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[6] Univ Cambridge, Inst Theoret Geophys, Dept Appl Math & Theoret Phys, Cambridge CB3 0WA, England
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英国自然环境研究理事会;
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10.1029/2006GL026290
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
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.
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