Table of Contents:
  • DRIFT ICE MATERIAL: Sea ice cover
  • Ice floes to drift ice particles
  • Thickness of drift ice
  • Sea ice ridges
  • Drift ice state
  • ICE KINEMATICS: Description of ice velocity field
  • Observations
  • Stochastic modelling
  • Ice conservation law
  • SEA ICE RHEOLOGY: Viscous laws
  • Plastic laws
  • Granular flow models
  • EQUATION OF DRIFT ICE MOTION: Derivation of the equation of motion
  • Atmospheric and oceanic drag forces
  • Scale analysis and dimension analysis
  • Dynamics of a single ice floe
  • FREE DRIFT: Steady-state solution
  • Non-steady-state solution
  • Linear, coupled ice-ocean model
  • Spatial aspects of free drift
  • DRIFT IN THE PRESENCE OF INTERNAL FRICTION: The role of internal friction
  • Channel flow
  • Zonal sea ice drift
  • Modelling of ice tank experiments
  • NUMERICAL MODELLING: Numerical solution
  • Examples of sea ice dynamics models
  • Short-term modelling applications
  • Long-term modelling applications.