Articles | Volume 17, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-6051-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-6051-2024
Development and technical paper
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15 Aug 2024
Development and technical paper |  | 15 Aug 2024

Implementation of a brittle sea ice rheology in an Eulerian, finite-difference, C-grid modeling framework: impact on the simulated deformation of sea ice in the Arctic

Laurent Brodeau, Pierre Rampal, Einar Ólason, and Véronique Dansereau

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A new brittle sea ice rheology, BBM, has been implemented into the sea ice component of NEMO. We describe how a new spatial discretization framework was introduced to achieve this. A set of idealized and realistic ocean and sea ice simulations of the Arctic have been performed using BBM and the standard viscous–plastic rheology of NEMO. When compared to satellite data, our simulations show that our implementation of BBM leads to a fairly good representation of sea ice deformations.
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