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Articles | Volume 18, issue 24
Articles | Volume 18, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-10053-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-10053-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 24
Model description paper
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15 Dec 2025
Model description paper |  | 15 Dec 2025

WIce-FOAM 1.0: coupled dynamic and thermodynamic modelling of heterogeneous sea ice and waves using OpenFOAM-v2306

Rutger Marquart, Alberto Alberello, Alfred Bogaers, Francesca De Santi, and Marcello Vichi

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This study developed a kilometre-scale sea-ice model in OpenFOAM that couples dynamic and thermodynamic processes for two types of ice, solid-like ice floes and fluid-like grease ice, under wave forcing. This model can help to improve data input for large-scale sea-ice models. Results show a linear relationship between the proportion of ice floes in the field and the overall viscosity. Additionally, we found that viscosity responds nonlinearly to the inclusion of thermodynamic sea-ice growth.
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