--- MITgcm_contrib/articles/ceaice/ceaice_intro.tex	2008/03/04 20:31:31	1.3
+++ MITgcm_contrib/articles/ceaice/ceaice_intro.tex	2008/06/04 13:32:49	1.5
@@ -44,25 +44,27 @@
 Traditionally, probably for historical reasons and the ease of
 treating the Coriolis term, most standard sea-ice models are
 discretized on Arakawa-B-grids \citep[e.g.,][]{hibler79, harder99,
-  kreyscher00, zhang98, hunke97}\ml{, although there are sea ice only
-  models diretized on a C-grid \citep[e.g.,][]{tremblay97,
-    lemieux09}}. From the perspective of coupling a sea ice-model to a
-C-grid ocean model, the exchange of fluxes of heat and fresh-water
-pose no difficulty for a B-grid sea-ice model
-\citep[e.g.,][]{timmermann02a}. However, surface stress is defined at
-velocities points and thus needs to be interpolated between a B-grid
-sea-ice model and a C-grid ocean model. Smoothing implicitly
-associated with this interpolation may mask grid scale noise and may
-contribute to stabilizing the solution. On the other hand, by
-smoothing the stress signals are damped which could lead to reduced
-variability of the system. By choosing a C-grid for the sea-ice model,
-we circumvent this difficulty altogether and render the stress
-coupling as consistent as the buoyancy coupling.
+  kreyscher00, zhang98, hunke97}, although there are sea ice models
+diretized on a C-grid \citep[e.g.,][]{ip91, tremblay97,
+  lemieux09}. %
+\ml{[there is also MI-IM, but I only found this as a reference:
+  \url{http://retro.met.no/english/r_and_d_activities/method/num_mod/MI-IM-Documentation.pdf}]}
+From the perspective of coupling a sea ice-model to a C-grid ocean
+model, the exchange of fluxes of heat and fresh-water pose no
+difficulty for a B-grid sea-ice model \citep[e.g.,][]{timmermann02a}.
+However, surface stress is defined at velocities points and thus needs
+to be interpolated between a B-grid sea-ice model and a C-grid ocean
+model. Smoothing implicitly associated with this interpolation may
+mask grid scale noise and may contribute to stabilizing the solution.
+On the other hand, by smoothing the stress signals are damped which
+could lead to reduced variability of the system. By choosing a C-grid
+for the sea-ice model, we circumvent this difficulty altogether and
+render the stress coupling as consistent as the buoyancy coupling.
 
 A further advantage of the C-grid formulation is apparent in narrow
 straits. In the limit of only one grid cell between coasts there is no
 flux allowed for a B-grid (with no-slip lateral boundary counditions),
-and models have used topographies artificially widened straits to
+and models have used topographies with artificially widened straits to
 avoid this problem \citep{holloway07}. The C-grid formulation on the
 other hand allows a flux of sea-ice through narrow passages if
 free-slip along the boundaries is allowed. We demonstrate this effect
@@ -71,11 +73,12 @@
 Talk about problems that make the sea-ice-ocean code very sensitive and
 changes in the code that reduce these sensitivities.
 
-This paper describes the MITgcm sea ice
-model; it presents example Arctic and Antarctic results from a realistic,
-eddy-permitting, global ocean and sea-ice configuration; it compares B-grid
-and C-grid dynamic solvers in a regional Arctic configuration; and it presents
-example results from coupled ocean and sea-ice adjoint-model integrations.
+This paper describes the MITgcm sea ice model; it presents example
+Arctic and Antarctic results from a realistic, eddy-permitting, global
+ocean and sea-ice configuration; it compares B-grid and C-grid dynamic
+solvers and investigates further aspects of sea ice modeling in a
+regional Arctic configuration; and it presents example results from
+coupled ocean and sea-ice adjoint-model integrations.
 
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