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OverviewSea ice is a major component of polar environments, especially in the Arctic where it covers the entire Arctic Ocean throughout most of the year. However, in the context of climate change, the Arctic sea ice cover has been declining significantly over the last decades, either in terms of its concentration or thickness. The sea ice cover evolution and climate change are strongly coupled through the albedo positive feedback, thus possibly explaining the Arctic amplification of climate warming. In addition to thermodynamics, sea ice kinematics (drift, deformation) appears as an essential factor in the evolution of the ice cover through a reduction of the average ice age (and consequently of the cover's thickness), or ice export out of the Arctic. This is a first motivation for a better understanding of the kinematical and mechanical processes of sea ice. A more upstream, theoretical motivation is a better understanding of the brittle deformation of geophysical objects across a wide range of scales. Indeed, owing to its very strong kinematics, compared e.g. to the Earth’s crust, an unrivaled kinematical data set is available for sea ice from in situ (e.g. drifting buoys) or satellite observations. Here, we review the recent advances in the understanding of sea ice drift, deformation and fracturing obtained from these data. We focus particularly on the scaling properties in time and scale that characterize these processes, and we emphasize the analogies that can be drawn from the deformation of the Earth’s crust. These scaling properties, which are the signature of long-range elasticinteractions within the cover, constrain future developments in the modeling of sea ice mechanics. We also show that kinematical and rheological variables such as average velocity, average strain-rate or strength have significantly changed over the last decades, accompanying and actually accelerating the Arctic sea ice decline. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jerome WeissPublisher: Springer Imprint: Springer Edition: 2013 ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.168kg ISBN: 9789400762015ISBN 10: 9400762011 Pages: 83 Publication Date: 19 March 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction1.1 Sea Ice Kinematics: From the Fram’s Journey to Thorndike’s Legacy 1.2 Sea Ice Dynamics: The Momentum Equation 1.3 Scaling: Some Basic Definitions 2. Sea Ice Drift2.1 Data 2.2 How to Extract a Mean Field 2.3 Diffusion Regimes 2.4 Turbulent-like Fluctuations 2.5 Sea Ice Acceleration and the Dynamical Origin of Intermittency 2.6 Spectral Analysis 2.7 Concluding Remarks 3. Sea Ice Deformation3.1 Data 3.2 Spatial Scaling and Localization of Deformation 3.3 Space and Time Scaling Laws from the Dispersion of Lagrangian Trajectories 3.4 Space/Time Coupling 3.5 Sea Ice Dispersion as the Result of « Solid Turbulence » 3.6 Spectral Analysis 3.7 Concluding Remarks 4. Sea Ice Fracturing4.1 Data 4.2 Sea Ice Internal Stresses, Strength, and Rheology 4.3 Intermittency of Sea Ice Stresses 4.4 Fracture Networks 4.5 A Statistical Model of Sea Ice Fracturing and Deformation 5. Conclusion and Perspectives: Sea Ice Drift, Deformation and Fracturing in a Changing ArcticReviewsAuthor InformationJérôme Weiss completed his PhD in Material Science at the Ecole des Mines of Paris in 1992. He is CNRS senior scientist in the Laboratory of Glaciology and Geophysics of the Environment in Grenoble, where he led the Ice Mechanics group until 2009. His research interests cover the mechanics of geophysical objects, from the scale of lattice defects (dislocations, microcracks) to large geophysical scales. He is therefore particularly interested in scaling properties of mechanical-related variables. During the last decade, he particularly focused on the Arctic sea ice cover, its mechanical behavior, drift, and deformation, as well as its role on climate change. He has published about 85 scientific papers, including 7 solicited reviews and 6 general public articles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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