An elastic-viscous-plastic sea ice model formulated on Arakawa B and C grids
Bouillon, S.; Maqueda, M.A.M.; Legat, V.; Fichefet, T. (2009). An elastic-viscous-plastic sea ice model formulated on Arakawa B and C grids. Ocean Modelling 27(3-4): 174-184. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.01.004 In: Ocean Modelling. Elsevier: Oxford. ISSN 1463-5003; e-ISSN 1463-5011, more |  |
| Keyword | | | Author keywords | Sea ice; Coupled sea ice-ocean model; Elastic-viscous-plastic rheology; |
| Authors | | Top | - Bouillon, S., more
- Maqueda, M.A.M.
- Legat, V., more
- Fichefet, T., more
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| Abstract | The elastic-viscous-plastic (EVP) sea ice rheology has been introduced in the large-scale Louvain-la-Neuve sea-Ice Model, version 2 (LIM2), and its performance has been evaluated. Centred difference versions of the rheology have been implemented on both an Arakawa B grid and a C grid, and their performance have been intercompared in coupled simulations with the Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO) model. Integrations with both implementations lead to fairly similar results which compare well with observations and with previous LIM simulations. The C grid version, however, offers a number of advantages: (a) easier ice coupling with NEMO, which is itself defined on a C grid; (b) possibility of representing ice transport across one-cell-wide straits and passages; (c) better representation of inertial-plastic compressive waves. For these reasons, we recommend the use of the C grid EVP formulation of the ice dynamics in future LIM applications. |
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