ADVANCES IN POLAR SCIENCE ›› 2009, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (2): 91-99.

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PRELIMINARY RESULTS ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY AND POROSITY OF SEA ICE IN THE ANTARCTIC

DAN Li-Qiong, BAI Jue-La, LI Zhi-Jun, Matti Leppranta   

  1. 1 Department of Mathematics; Bohai University; Jinzhou 121000; China; 2 State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering; Dalian University of Technology; Dalian 116024; 3 Finnish Meteorological Institute; FI-00014 Helsinki; Finland; 4 Department of Physics; University of Helsinki; P.O. Box 64; Fi-00014 Helsinki; Finland
  • Online:2009-06-30 Published:2009-06-30

Abstract:

Used sea-ice temperature,salinity and density data from Chinese Antarctic Expedition and the Cox and Weeks formula to calculate porosity in ice,the vertical profile of porosity in ice is calculated. Then the vertical profile of sea-ice thermal diffusivity is obtained by establishing an optimal control model about distributed parameter system. According to seven assumed relations of sea-ice thermal diffusion and porosity,the best relation between the diffusion and porosity is identified. In order to illumina...

Key words: sea ice, porosity, optimal identification, numerical simulations, Antarctica.