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Sea Ice Deformation

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Drift, Deformation, and Fracture of Sea Ice

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Instead of individual trajectories, this chapter consider velocity gradients within sea ice, i.e. deformation rates. This can be done either from the analysis of the relative dispersion of tracers (buoys), or from strain-rate fields obtained from satellite imagery. Although statistical tools previously developed in the context of turbulence have been used to characterize sea ice dispersion, the differences between sea ice and turbulent fluids are important. Sea ice deformation exhibits a strong spatial localization accompanied by a strong intermittency, both aspects being respectively characterized by specific space and time scaling laws. Moreover, they are coupled together through a space/time scaling symmetry that has no equivalence in fluid turbulence, but has been documented for the brittle deformation of the Earth’s crust. A consequence is that sea ice dispersion regimes vary from a slightly super-diffusive regime at small spatial scales, to a very slow sub-diffusive one at large scales, i.e. much slower than oceanic dispersion. This also argues for a strongly non-linear, brittle rheology of the sea ice cover.

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Weiss, J. (2013). Sea Ice Deformation. In: Drift, Deformation, and Fracture of Sea Ice. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6202-2_3

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