--- MITgcm_contrib/articles/ceaice/ceaice.tex 2008/01/10 15:47:32 1.4 +++ MITgcm_contrib/articles/ceaice/ceaice.tex 2008/01/14 15:46:54 1.5 @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ \documentclass[12pt]{article} -\usepackage{graphicx,subfigure} +\usepackage[]{graphicx} +\usepackage{subfigure} \usepackage[round,comma]{natbib} \bibliographystyle{bib/agu04} @@ -129,10 +130,10 @@ \frac{\partial{u_{i}}}{\partial{x_{j}}} + \frac{\partial{u_{j}}}{\partial{x_{i}}}\right). \end{equation*} -The pressure $P$, a measure of ice strength, depends on both thickness -$h$ and compactness (concentration) $c$: +The maximum ice pressure $P_{\max}$, a measure of ice strength, depends on +both thickness $h$ and compactness (concentration) $c$: \begin{equation} - P = P^{*}c\,h\,e^{[C^{*}\cdot(1-c)]}, + P_{\max} = P^{*}c\,h\,e^{[C^{*}\cdot(1-c)]}, \label{icestrength} \end{equation} with the constants $P^{*}$ and $C^{*}$. The nonlinear bulk and shear @@ -141,8 +142,9 @@ stress lie on an elliptical yield curve with the ratio of major to minor axis $e$ equal to $2$; they are given by: \begin{align*} - \zeta =& \frac{P}{2\Delta} \\ - \eta =& \frac{P}{2\Delta{e}^2} \\ + \zeta =& \min\left(\frac{P_{\max}}{2\max(\Delta,\Delta_{\min})}, + \zeta_{\max}\right) \\ + \eta =& \frac{\zeta}{e^2} \\ \intertext{with the abbreviation} \Delta = & \left[ \left(\dot{\epsilon}_{11}^2+\dot{\epsilon}_{22}^2\right) @@ -150,6 +152,14 @@ 2\dot{\epsilon}_{11}\dot{\epsilon}_{22} (1-e^{-2}) \right]^{-\frac{1}{2}} \end{align*} +The bulk viscosities are bounded above by imposing both a minimum +$\Delta_{\min}=10^{-11}\text{\,s}^{-1}$ (for numerical reasons) and a +maximum $\zeta_{\max} = P_{\max}/\Delta^*$, where +$\Delta^*=(5\times10^{12}/2\times10^4)\text{\,s}^{-1}$. For stress +tensor compuation the replacement pressure $P = 2\,\Delta\zeta$ +\citep{hibler95} is used so that the stress state always lies on the +elliptic yield curve by definition. + In the current implementation, the VP-model is integrated with the semi-implicit line successive over relaxation (LSOR)-solver of \citet{zhang98}, which allows for long time steps that, in our case, @@ -373,32 +383,62 @@ effective thickness and meridional velocity fields. The velocity field appears to be a little noisy. This noise has been address by \citet{hunke01}. It can be dealt with by reducing EVP's internal time -step (increasing the number of iterations) or by regularizing the bulk -and shear viscosities. We revisit the latter option by reproducing the -results of \citet{hunke01} for the C-grid no-slip cases. +step (increasing the number of iterations along with the computational +cost) or by regularizing the bulk and shear viscosities. We revisit +the latter option by reproducing some of the results of +\citet{hunke01}, namely the experiment described in her section~4, for +our C-grid no-slip cases: in a square domain with a few islands the +ice model is initialized with constant ice thickness and linearly +increasing ice concentration to the east. The model dynamics are +forced with a constant anticyclonic ocean gyre and variable +atmospheric wind whose mean directed diagnonally to the north-east +corner of the domain; ice volume and concentration are held constant +(no advection by ice velocity). \reffig{hunke01} shows the ice +velocity field, its divergence, and the bulk viscosity $\zeta$ for the +cases C-LRSns and C-EVPns, and for a C-EVPns case, where +\citet{hunke01}'s regularization has been implemented; compare to +Fig.\,4 in \citet{hunke01}. The regularization contraint limits ice +strength and viscosities as a function of damping time scale, +resolution and EVP-time step, effectively allowing the elastic waves to +damp out more quickly \citep{hunke01}. \begin{figure*}[htbp] \includegraphics[width=\widefigwidth]{\fpath/hun12days} \caption{Hunke's test case.} \label{fig:hunke01} \end{figure*} -\begin{itemize} -\item B-grid LSR no-slip -\item C-grid LSR no-slip -\item C-grid LSR slip -\item C-grid EVP no-slip -\item C-grid EVP slip -\end{itemize} - -\subsection{B-grid vs.\ C-grid} -Comparison between: -\begin{itemize} -\item B-grid, lsr, no-slip -\item C-grid, lsr, no-slip -\item C-grid, evp, no-slip -\end{itemize} -all without ice-ocean stress, because ice-ocean stress does not work -for B-grid. +In the far right (``east'') side of the domain the ice concentration +is close to one and the ice should be nearly rigid. The applied wind +tends to push ice toward the upper right corner. Because the highly +compact ice is confinded by the boundary, it resists any further +compression and exhibits little motion in the rigid region on the +right hand side. The C-LSRns solution (top row) allows high +viscosities in the rigid region suppressing nearly all flow. +\citet{hunke01}'s regularization for the C-EVPns solution (bottom row) +clearly suppresses the noise present in $\nabla\cdot\vek{u}$ in the +unregularized case (middle row), at the cost of reduced viscosities +These reduced viscosities lead to small but finite ice velocities +which in turn can have a strong effect on solutions in the limit of +nearly rigid regimes (arching and blocking, not shown). + + +%\begin{itemize} +%\item B-grid LSR no-slip +%\item C-grid LSR no-slip +%\item C-grid LSR slip +%\item C-grid EVP no-slip +%\item C-grid EVP slip +%\end{itemize} + +%\subsection{B-grid vs.\ C-grid} +%Comparison between: +%\begin{itemize} +%\item B-grid, lsr, no-slip +%\item C-grid, lsr, no-slip +%\item C-grid, evp, no-slip +%\end{itemize} +%all without ice-ocean stress, because ice-ocean stress does not work +%for B-grid. \subsection{C-grid} \begin{itemize} @@ -757,7 +797,8 @@ We thank Jinlun Zhang for providing the original B-grid code and many helpful discussions. -\bibliography{bib/journal_abrvs,bib/seaice,bib/genocean,bib/maths,bib/mitgcmuv,bib/fram} +%\bibliography{bib/journal_abrvs,bib/seaice,bib/genocean,bib/maths,bib/mitgcmuv,bib/fram} +\bibliography{journal_abrvs,seaice,genocean,maths,mitgcmuv,bib/fram} \end{document}