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Exploring the “solid turbulence” of sea ice dynamics down to unprecedented small scales
Author(s) -
Weiss Jérôme
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: oceans
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2169-9291
pISSN - 2169-9275
DOI - 10.1002/2017jc013236
Subject(s) - sea ice , geology , ice sheet , turbulence , bridging (networking) , drift ice , oceanography , climatology , cryosphere , meteorology , physics , computer science , computer network
Sea ice decline is an essential player, as well as an emblematic signature, of global warming. Besides sea surface temperature rising, sea ice drift, and deformation play a major role on the observed negative mass balance, thus calling for a deeper understanding of sea ice mechanics. Over the last decades, drifters and satellite data allowed a detailed characterization of sea ice kinematics, however limited by relatively coarse space (∼10 km) and time (∼ day) resolutions. A new work allows bridging the gap between these large scales and fundamental ice physics and mechanics.