The effect of ice pressure on marginal ice zone dynamics

To evaluate the role of compressive ice pressure in marginal ice zone dynamics, a cavitating fluid model with periodic boundaries is developed and subjected to a fixed wind field and both cyclonic and anticyclonic wind vortices. In this model, ice interaction is approximated by assuming that sea ice has no resistance to divergence or shear, but has some compressive strength which is taken to be a linear function of compactness. Time scales of ice pressure effects are examined and their relevance to ocean eddies is discussed