An analytical model for wind-driven Arctic summer sea ice drift

Park, H.-S.; Stewart, A. L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-227-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-227-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-227-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

Research article

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21 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 21 Jan 2016

An analytical model for wind-driven Arctic summer sea ice drift

H.-S. Park and A. L. Stewart

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RC C587: 'Comments on "An analytical model for wind-driven Arctic summer sea ice drift"', Anonymous Referee #1, 27 Apr 2015
RC C744: '``An analytical model for wind-driven Arctic summer sea ice drift'' by H.-S. Park and A. L. Stewart', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 May 2015
AC C1541: 'test', Hyo-Seok Park, 04 Sep 2015

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AR by Svenja Lange on behalf of the Authors (04 Sep 2015) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (10 Sep 2015) by Lars Kaleschke

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (09 Oct 2015)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (12 Nov 2015)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (14 Nov 2015) by Lars Kaleschke

AR by Hyo-Seok Park on behalf of the Authors (28 Nov 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (16 Dec 2015) by Lars Kaleschke

Short summary

We have derived an analytical model for wind-driven free sea ice drift. We allow for partial sea ice cover using the "mixture layer" formulation and explicitly assume an oceanic Ekman layer, separated from the ice by a thin boundary layer. Provided that surface wind field is known, it is easy to calculate sea ice motion using this analytical model. We believe this analytical model is going to be a powerful tool for identifying and quantifying the mechanisms for sea ice variability.