Experimental evidence for a universal threshold characterizing wave-induced sea ice break-up

Voermans, Joey J.; Rabault, Jean; Filchuk, Kirill; Ryzhov, Ivan; Heil, Petra; Marchenko, Aleksey; Collins III, Clarence O.; Dabboor, Mohammed; Sutherland, Graig; Babanin, Alexander V.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4265-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4265-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4265-2020

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

Articles | Volume 14, issue 11

Research article

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27 Nov 2020

Research article |

| 27 Nov 2020

Experimental evidence for a universal threshold characterizing wave-induced sea ice break-up

Joey J. Voermans, Jean Rabault, Kirill Filchuk, Ivan Ryzhov, Petra Heil, Aleksey Marchenko, Clarence O. Collins III, Mohammed Dabboor, Graig Sutherland, and Alexander V. Babanin

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Sep 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Joey Voermans, 30 Sep 2020
RC2: 'review of Voermans et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Sep 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Joey Voermans, 30 Sep 2020

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (05 Oct 2020) by Yevgeny Aksenov

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ED: Publish as is (12 Oct 2020) by Yevgeny Aksenov

AR by Joey Voermans on behalf of the Authors (20 Oct 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

In this work we demonstrate the existence of an observational threshold which identifies when waves are most likely to break sea ice. This threshold is based on information from two recent field campaigns, supplemented with existing observations of sea ice break-up. We show that both field and laboratory observations tend to converge to a single quantitative threshold at which the wave-induced sea ice break-up takes place, which opens a promising avenue for operational forecasting models.