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Sea ice is a mushy layer
Author(s) -
Feltham D. L.,
Untersteiner N.,
Wettlaufer J. S.,
Worster M. G.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2006gl026290
Subject(s) - component (thermodynamics) , foundation (evidence) , stefan problem , layer (electronics) , phase (matter) , conservation law , geology , mechanics , porous medium , sea ice , porosity , meteorology , geophysics , climatology , materials science , thermodynamics , mathematics , physics , geotechnical engineering , geography , nanotechnology , mathematical analysis , boundary (topology) , archaeology , quantum mechanics
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.