Physics of the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone

LA Roach, MM Smith, A Herman… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The seasonal sea ice zone encompasses the region between the winter maximum and
summer minimum sea ice extent. In both the Arctic and Antarctic, the majority of the ice cover …

Advances in modeling interactions between sea ice and ocean surface waves

LA Roach, CM Bitz, C Horvat… - Journal of Advances in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent field programs have highlighted the importance of the composite nature of the sea
ice mosaic to the climate system. Accordingly, we previously developed a process‐based …

Observing waves in sea ice with ICESat‐2

C Horvat, E Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The coupled interaction of ocean surface waves and sea ice is important in determining the
thermodynamic and dynamic properties of sea ice and its relationship to the ocean and …

Theoretical framework for the emergent floe size distribution in the marginal ice zone: the case for log-normality

F Montiel, N Mokus - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Sea ice is not horizontally homogeneous on large scales. Its morphology is inherently
discrete and made of individual floes. In recent years, sea ice models have incorporated this …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of sea ice floe size distribution on seasonal fragmentation and melt of Arctic sea ice

AW Bateson, DL Feltham, D Schröder… - The …, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
Recent years have seen a rapid reduction in the summer Arctic sea ice extent. To both
understand this trend and project the future evolution of the summer Arctic sea ice, a better …

Modelling the Arctic wave-affected marginal ice zone: a comparison with ICESat-2 observations

G Boutin, T Williams, C Horvat… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We evaluate marginal ice zone (MIZ) extent in a wave–ice 25 km-resolution coupled model,
compared with pan-Arctic wave-affected sea-ice regions derived from ICESat-2 altimetry …

[HTML][HTML] Sizes and shapes of sea ice floes broken by waves–a case study from the East Antarctic coast

A Herman, M Wenta, S Cheng - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The floe size distribution (FSD) is an important characteristics of sea ice, influencing several
physical processes that take place in the oceanic and atmospheric boundary layers …

[HTML][HTML] Altimetric observation of wave attenuation through the Antarctic marginal ice zone using ICESat-2

J Brouwer, AD Fraser, DJ Murphy, P Wongpan… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
The Antarctic marginal ice zone (MIZ) is a highly dynamic region where sea ice interacts with
ocean surface waves generated in ice-free areas of the Southern Ocean. Improved large …

Scale‐Dependent Air‐Sea Exchange in the Polar Oceans: Floe‐Floe and Floe‐Flow Coupling in the Generation of Ice‐Ocean Boundary Layer Turbulence

S Brenner, C Horvat, P Hall… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sea ice is a heterogeneous, evolving mosaic of individual floes, varying in spatial scales
from meters to tens of kilometers. Both the internal dynamics of the floe mosaic (floe‐floe …

[HTML][HTML] A dataset of direct observations of sea ice drift and waves in ice

J Rabault, M Müller, J Voermans, D Brazhnikov… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Variability in sea ice conditions, combined with strong couplings to the atmosphere and the
ocean, lead to a broad range of complex sea ice dynamics. More in-situ measurements are …