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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2017-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-2017-2024
Research article
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30 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 30 Apr 2024

On the sensitivity of sea ice deformation statistics to plastic damage

Antoine Savard and Bruno Tremblay

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We include a suitable plastic damage parametrization in the standard viscous–plastic (VP) sea ice model to disentangle its effect from resolved model physics (visco-plastic with and without damage) on its ability to reproduce observed scaling laws of deformation. This study shows that including a damage parametrization in the VP model improves its performance in simulating the statistical behavior of fracture patterns. Therefore, a damage parametrization is a powerful tuning knob.
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