Identification

Title

The NCAR CSM Sea Ice Model

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to document the details of the governing equations and physical parameterizations of the sea ice model component in the first version of the NCAR Climate System Model (CSM). It should be noted that this model is very similar to the sea ice component used by Washington and Meehl (1996a, 1996b) in a fully coupled model of the atmosphere, ocean, and sea ice. Many of the thermodynamic ice growth and melt processes are taken from previous work, namely Semtner (1976), Parkinson and Washington (1979), Harvey (1988), and Pollard and Thompson (1994). Ice dynamics are based upon the cavitating fluid solution described by Flato and Hibler (1990, 1992), and used by Pollard and Thompson (1994), where the shear and tensile strength of the ice are neglected and the compressive strength is used to iterate to a representative ice velocity each timestep.

Resource type

document

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d77d2tj9

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Text

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Resource Type

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE

EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > MODELS > CRYOSPHERE MODELS

EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > MODELS > COUPLED CLIMATE MODELS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-09-17

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

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Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-08-18T18:04:48.554766

Metadata language

eng; USA