Toward a method for downscaling sea ice pressure for navigation purposes

Lemieux, Jean-François; Tremblay, L. Bruno; Plante, Mathieu

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3465-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3465-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3465-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 10

Research article

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19 Oct 2020

Research article |

| 19 Oct 2020

Toward a method for downscaling sea ice pressure for navigation purposes

Jean-François Lemieux, L. Bruno Tremblay, and Mathieu Plante

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'PDFs in Figures 4-5', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 May 2020
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', J.-F. Lemieux, 28 Jul 2020
RC2: 'don't know what the question is', Robert Frederking, 10 Jun 2020
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', J.-F. Lemieux, 28 Jul 2020
RC3: 'A well written paper that needs some addtional clarifications', Harry Heorton, 11 Jun 2020
- AC3: 'Response to reviewer 3', J.-F. Lemieux, 28 Jul 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (03 Aug 2020) by Yevgeny Aksenov

AR by Anna Mirena Feist-Polner on behalf of the Authors (24 Aug 2020) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (28 Aug 2020) by Yevgeny Aksenov

Short summary

Sea ice pressure poses great risk for navigation; it can lead to ship besetting and damages. Sea ice forecasting systems can predict the evolution of pressure. However, these systems have low spatial resolution (a few km) compared to the dimensions of ships. We study the downscaling of pressure from the km-scale to scales relevant for navigation. We find that the pressure applied on a ship beset in heavy ice conditions can be markedly larger than the pressure predicted by the forecasting system.