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A new brittle rheology and numerical framework for large-scale sea-ice models

Einar Ólason
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Guillaume Boutin
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Anton Korosov
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Timothy Williams
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Madlen Kimmritz
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Véronique Dansereau
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Abdoulaye Samaké
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Résumé

We present a new brittle rheology and an accompanying numerical framework for large-scale sea-ice modelling. We have based this rheology on a Bingham-Maxwell constitutive model and the Maxwell-Elasto-Brittle (MEB) rheology for sea ice. The key strength of the MEB rheology is its ability to represent the scaling properties of simulated sea-ice deformation in space and time. The new rheology we propose here, which we refer to as the brittle Bingham-Maxwell rheology (BBM), represents a further evolution of the MEB rheology. We developed BBM to address two main shortcomings of the MEB rheology and numerical implementation: excessive thickening of the ice in model runs longer than about one winter and a relatively high computational cost. The BBM addresses these shortcomings by demanding that the ice deforms under convergence in a purely elastic manner when internal stresses lie below a given compressive threshold. It also improves numerical performance by introducing an explicit scheme to solve the ice momentum equation. We show that using an implementation of BBM in the neXtSIM sea-ice model, the model gives reasonable long-term evolution of the Arctic sea-ice cover. It also gives very good deformation fields and statistics compared to satellite observations.
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insu-04604365 , version 1 (07-06-2024)

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Einar Ólason, Guillaume Boutin, Anton Korosov, Pierre Rampal, Timothy Williams, et al.. A new brittle rheology and numerical framework for large-scale sea-ice models. EGU23, 0000, à renseigner, Unknown Region. ⟨10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11613⟩. ⟨insu-04604365⟩

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