Articles | Volume 9, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1219-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1219-2016
Model description paper
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01 Apr 2016
Model description paper |  | 01 Apr 2016

Discrete-Element bonded-particle Sea Ice model DESIgn, version 1.3a – model description and implementation

Agnieszka Herman

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AR by Agnieszka Herman on behalf of the Authors (29 Oct 2015)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (31 Oct 2015) by Jeremy Fyke
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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (18 Nov 2015) by Jeremy Fyke
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ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (28 Jan 2016) by Jeremy Fyke
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (03 Mar 2016) by Jeremy Fyke
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ED: Publish as is (16 Mar 2016) by Jeremy Fyke
AR by Agnieszka Herman on behalf of the Authors (21 Mar 2016)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
Recent developments in observational and modeling techniques allow us to analyze sea ice with increasingly higher resolution. Instead of a continuous ice cover we observe a complex, constantly changing medium composed of interacting floes. Understanding these aspects of sea ice behavior requires new modeling methods, like the Discrete-Element Sea Ice model (DESIgn) in which sea ice is treated as an assemblage of grains that freeze together or break apart in response to wind and ocean currents.