documentation of ice shelf eqns.

[rmueller]

I am looking for a good reference on the equations used in the ROMS ice shelf coupling, but I am obviously not looking in the right places. Everything that I find seems to refer to the sea ice coupling rather than the ice shelf. What is the paper(s) from which the ROMS ice shelf equations are derived?
Thx (in advance).

[rmueller]

I'll answer my own question in case someone else is looking for similar information.

Check
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and refer to:

Holland and Jenkins (1999)
Grosfeld et al. (1997)
Jenkins and Holland (2002)
Pereira et al. (2002)
Blumberg and Mellor (1987)

I haven't yet checked the equations to see where specific values/eqns. come from. This is at least a start.

[rmueller]

Well that's not helpful! eh?

take two.

try:
http://staff.acecrc.org.au/~johunter/is ... vities.pdf

Or go to John Hunter's home page and look for "ISOMIP" files.

[enrique]

None of the above is the real answer. All they are is a modification to the water column depth (for the geometry) and an upside down bottom drag for the boundary condition.

[rmueller]

Roger that, Enrique. Mike Dinniman (CCPO, ODU) helped point out that the version I am using isn't "out of the box" and his improvement included the addition of thermodynamics. At the time of posting, I thought that this may be a good forum discussion point but it seems that my question is not as generic as I had thought. In any case, thanks for the comment.