Challenges and prospects in ocean circulation models

B Fox-Kemper, A Adcroft, CW Böning… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We revisit the challenges and prospects for ocean circulation models following Griffies et al..
Over the past decade, ocean circulation models evolved through improved understanding …

Dedalus: A flexible framework for numerical simulations with spectral methods

KJ Burns, GM Vasil, JS Oishi, D Lecoanet… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Numerical solutions of partial differential equations enable a broad range of scientific
research. The Dedalus project is a flexible, open-source, parallelized computational …

Changes in sea-ice protist diversity with declining sea ice in the Arctic Ocean from the 1980s to 2010s

H Hop, M Vihtakari, BA Bluhm, P Assmy… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The large declines in Arctic sea-ice age and extent over the last decades could have altered
the diversity of sea-ice associated unicellular eukaryotes (referred to as sea-ice protists). A …

Bistability in radiatively heated melt ponds

R Yang, CJ Howland, HR Liu, R Verzicco, D Lohse - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Melting and solidification processes, intertwined with convective flows, play a fundamental
role in geophysical contexts. One of these processes is the formation of melt ponds on …

Sensitivity of Arctic sea ice to melt pond processes and atmospheric forcing: A model study

J Sterlin, T Fichefet, F Massonnet, O Lecomte… - Ocean Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
Melt ponds are pools of meltwater forming principally on Arctic sea ice during the melt
season. The albedo of melt ponds is a key component of the surface energy balance. For …

Melting and solidification in periodically modulated thermal convection

R Yang, KL Chong, HR Liu, R Verzicco… - Journal of Fluid …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Melting and solidification in periodically time-modulated thermal convection are relevant for
numerous natural and engineering systems, for example, glacial melting under periodic sun …

Salt‐Fingering in Seasonally Ice‐Covered Lakes

J Olsthoorn, EW Tedford… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
When ice forms on lakes, dissolved salts are rejected, which can lead to under‐ice salt
finger formation. We performed a series of laboratory experiments to visualize these fingers …

Improvement of sea ice thermodynamics with variable sea ice salinity and melt pond parameterizations in an OGCM

T Toyoda, K Sakamoto, T Toyota, H Tsujino… - Ocean Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
Enhanced representation of sea ice processes in ocean modeling studies is required for
advancing our understanding and prediction of the climate variability. In the present study …

Penetrative and Marangoni convection in a fluid film over a phase boundary

DJ Dhas, A Roy, S Toppaladoddi - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
We study the effects of buoyancy, surface-tension gradients and phase boundary on the
stability of a layer of water that is confined between air at the top and a layer of ice at the …

Design and Implementation of an Ice-Tethered Observation System for Melt Pond Evolution with Vision and Temperature Profile Measurements

G Zuo, Y Dou, B Yang, B An - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
Melt pond is one of the most significant and important features of Arctic sea ice in the
summer and can dramatically reduce the albedo of ice, promoting more energy into the …