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<div class="">A reviewer pointed out to me that, by default, the sea ice stresses are not multiplied by the sea ice concentration, i.e. </div>
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<div class="">m_ice* Du/Dt = … + \tau, where m_ice=h*c (sea ice mass per unit area) and \tau=rho*Cd* (u_i-u_o)^2 (not multiplied by c!)</div>
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<div class="">Documentation for the SEAICE package seems to state the same: <a href="http://mitgcm.org/public/r2_manual/latest/online_documents/node254.html#SECTION00762430000000000000" class="">
http://mitgcm.org/public/r2_manual/latest/online_documents/node254.html#SECTION00762430000000000000</a></div>
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<div class="">In this case, the ocean and atmosphere stresses exerted on the sea ice do not depend on its concentration, which seems physically wrong. At the same time the manual suggests that the ocean stress exerted by the sea ice is multiplied by the sea
ice concentration (which does make sense). Since stress is a continuous quantity the ice-ocean stress =-ocean-ice stress and it seems wrong to have only one of these proportional to the concentration. Is this correct that the SEAICE package does not multiply
the stresses by the concentration, or is there a bug in documentation or perhaps my interpretation of the sea ice equations is off?</div>
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<div class="">The reviewer also implied that there is frag that one needs to explicitly set in order for the stresses to be multiplied by the concentration. Could someone point me to that flag? </div>
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<div class="">Thanks for your help,</div>
<div class="">Georgy</div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">Georgy Manucharyan,<br class="">
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Environmental Science and Engineering,<br class="">
California Institute of Technology,<br class="">
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