Arctic sea ice mass balance in a new coupled ice–ocean model using a brittle rheology framework

Boutin, Guillaume; Ólason, Einar; Rampal, Pierre; Regan, Heather; Lique, Camille; Talandier, Claude; Brodeau, Laurent; Ricker, Robert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-617-2023

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-617-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-617-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 2

Research article

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08 Feb 2023

Research article |

| 08 Feb 2023

Arctic sea ice mass balance in a new coupled ice–ocean model using a brittle rheology framework

Guillaume Boutin, Einar Ólason, Pierre Rampal, Heather Regan, Camille Lique, Claude Talandier, Laurent Brodeau, and Robert Ricker

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Data accompanying the article "Arctic sea ice mass balance in a new coupled ice-ocean model using a brittle rheology framework" (1.0) Guillaume Boutin, Heather Regan, Einar Ólason, Laurent Brodeau, Claude Talandier, Camille Lique, and Pierre Rampal https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7277523

Short summary

Sea ice cover in the Arctic is full of cracks, which we call leads. We suspect that these leads play a role for atmosphere–ocean interactions in polar regions, but their importance remains challenging to estimate. We use a new ocean–sea ice model with an original way of representing sea ice dynamics to estimate their impact on winter sea ice production. This model successfully represents sea ice evolution from 2000 to 2018, and we find that about 30 % of ice production takes place in leads.