Scale-Dependent Air-Sea Exchange in the Polar Oceans: Floe-Floe and Floe-Flow Coupling in the Generation of Ice-Ocean Boundary Layer Turbulence - INSU - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Research Letters Année : 2023

Scale-Dependent Air-Sea Exchange in the Polar Oceans: Floe-Floe and Floe-Flow Coupling in the Generation of Ice-Ocean Boundary Layer Turbulence

Samuel Brenner
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Christopher Horvat
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Paul Hall
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Anna Lo Piccolo
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Baylor Fox-Kemper
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Sea ice is a heterogeneous, evolving mosaic of individual floes, varying in spatial scales from meters to tens of kilometers. Both the internal dynamics of the floe mosaic (floe-floe interactions), and the evolution of floes under ocean and atmospheric forcing (floe-flow interactions), determine the exchange of heat, momentum, and tracers between the lower atmosphere and upper ocean. Climate models do not represent either of these highly variable interactions. We use a novel, high-resolution, discrete element modeling framework to examine ice-ocean boundary layer (IOBL) turbulence within a domain approximately the size of a climate model grid. We show floe-scale effects could cause a marked increase in the production of fine-scale three-dimensional turbulence in the IOBL relative to continuum model approaches, and provide a method of representing that turbulence using bulk parameters related to the spatial variance of the ice and ocean: the floe size distribution and the ocean kinetic energy spectrum.
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insu-04604353 , version 1 (07-06-2024)

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Samuel Brenner, Christopher Horvat, Paul Hall, Anna Lo Piccolo, Baylor Fox-Kemper, et al.. Scale-Dependent Air-Sea Exchange in the Polar Oceans: Floe-Floe and Floe-Flow Coupling in the Generation of Ice-Ocean Boundary Layer Turbulence. Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, 50, ⟨10.1029/2023GL105703⟩. ⟨insu-04604353⟩
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