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Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-227-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-227-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
Research article
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21 Jan 2016
Research article |  | 21 Jan 2016

An analytical model for wind-driven Arctic summer sea ice drift

H.-S. Park and A. L. Stewart

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We have derived an analytical model for wind-driven free sea ice drift. We allow for partial sea ice cover using the "mixture layer" formulation and explicitly assume an oceanic Ekman layer, separated from the ice by a thin boundary layer. Provided that surface wind field is known, it is easy to calculate sea ice motion using this analytical model. We believe this analytical model is going to be a powerful tool for identifying and quantifying the mechanisms for sea ice variability.
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