Sea ice is a mushy layer
- 19 July 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 33 (14)
Abstract
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.Keywords
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