edu.ucar.opensky::technotes:192 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T16:37:38.095295 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d77d2tj9 The NCAR CSM Sea Ice Model 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d77d2tj9 https://doi.org/10.5065/D60C4SPQ Bettge, T. author Weatherly, J. author Washington, W. author Pollard, D. author Briegleb, B. author Strand, W. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher 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. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Coupled climate models Cryosphere models Sea ice theme U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory GCMD 2021-09-17 revision 11.2 NASA Global Change Master Directory originator Valids List: Science and Services Keywords Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. None eng geoscientificInformation