Sea Ice Research

• CMG: Collaborative Research on Multi-Scale Predictions of Arctic Ice Motion
  
• Fram: Oriented Fracture Patterns and Frazil/Pancake Ice Formation: A New Basin Scale Model of Sea Ice Dynamics
  

People

Kinematics

MPM Simulations

Publications:

• Han D. Tran, Deborah L. Sulsky and Howard L. Schreyer,
  An Anisotropic Elastic-Decohesive Constitutive Relation for Sea Ice,
  Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanis, doi:10.1002/nag.2354, 39:988-1013 (2015).
• K. Peterson and D. Sulsky,
  Towards a New Elastic-Decohesive Model of Arctic Sea Ice ,
  Physica D, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.071 (2012).
• K. Peterson, H. Schreyer and D. Sulsky,
  Decohesion with Refreezing,
  Cold Reg. Sci. Technol., doi:10.1016/j.coldregions.2011.08.002 76-77:44-51 (2012)
• K. Peterson and D. Sulsky,
  Evaluating Deformation in the Beaufort Sea Using a Kinematic Crack Algorithm with RGPS Data,
  In: Remote sensing of the Changing Oceans,
  Eds: Tang, D., Gower, J., Levy, G., et al., Science Press/Springer ISBN 978-3-642-16540-5 (2011).
• Gad Levy, Max Coon, Giang Nguyen and Deborah Sulsky,
  Physically-Based Data Assimilation ,
  Geosci. Model Dev., 3:669-677 doi:10.5194/gmd-3-669-2010 (2010).
• Ron Kwok and Deborah Sulsky,
  Arctic Ocean sea ice thickness and kinematics: Satellite observations and modeling,
  Oceanography, 23(4):84-93 (2010)
• Levy, G., M. Coon, G. Nguyen, K. Peterson, and D. Sulsky,
  A new paradigm for data assimilation ,
  In Proceedings of the 9th Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference (PORSEC 2008) - Oceanic Manifestation of Global Changes, p. 34. Published by South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Copyright © PORSEC2008, Guangzhou, China.
• Gad Levy, Max Coon, Giang Nguyen and Deborah Sulsky,
  Metrics for Evaluating Linear Features,
  Geophysical Research Letters, 35:L21705, doi:10.1029/2008GL035086 (2008). (pdf)
  
• Max Coon, Ron Kwok, Gad Levy, Matt Pruis, Howard Schreyer, and Deborah Sulsky
  Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX) Assumptions Revisited and Found Inadequate (pdf)
  Journal of Geophysical Research, 112:C11S90, doi:10.1029/2005JC003393 (2007).
  
• Deborah Sulsky, Howard Schreyer, Kara Peterson, Ron Kwok and Max Coon
  Using the Material-Point Method to Model Sea Ice Dynamics (pdf)
  Journal of Geophysical Research, 112: C02S90, doi:10.1029/2005JC003329 (2007).
  
• E. Love and D. L. Sulsky
  An Unconditionally Stable, Energy-Momentum Consistent Implementation of the Material-Point Method,
  Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 195:3903-3925 (2006)
  see also: HPC@UNM TR # 2004-002
  
• E. Love and D. L. Sulsky
  An Energy Consistent Material-Point Method for Dynamic Finite Deformation Plasticity,
  International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 65:1608-1638 (2006)
  see also: HPC@UNM TR # 2005-001
  
• H. L. Schreyer, D. L. Sulsky, L. B. Munday, M. D. Coon, and R. Kwok
  Elasitic-Decohesive Constitutive Model for Sea Ice (pdf)
  Journal of Geophysical Research, 111:C11S26 doi:10.1029/2005JC003334 (2006).
  
• R. Kwok
  Contrasts in Sea Ice Deformation and Production in the Arctic Seasonal and Perennial Ice Zones (pdf)
  Journal of Geophysical Research, to appear.
  
• D. Sulsky, K. Peterson, H. Schreyer, R. Kwok and M. Coon
  On the Evaluation of Ice Models (pdf)
  Proc. 18th Int. Conf. on Port and Ocean Eng. Under Arctic Conditions, 2:765-774 (2005).
  
• H. Schreyer, L. Munday, D. Sulsky, R. Kwok and M. Coon
  Decohesive Representation of Ice Failure (pdf)
  Proc. 18th Int. Conf. on Port and Ocean Eng. Under Arctic Conditions, 1:331-340 (2005).
  
• H.L. Schreyer, D.L. Sulsky, and L.B. Munday
  Discrete Constitutive Equations for the Formation, Freezing and Closing of Leads in Arctic Ice (pdf) ,
  In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computation of Shell and Spatial Structures, E. Ramm, W.A. Wall, K.-U. Bletzinger, M. Bischoff (Eds.), pp. 1-4 (2005).
• K. Peterson, D. Sulsky, and H. Schreyer
  Numerical MPM Solution of Sea Ice Dynamics with an Elastic-Decohesive Constitutive Model (pdf)
  In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth (2006) International OffShore and Polar Engineering Conference, San Francisco, CA 26 May - 2 June, 2006, 1:569.

Presentations:

• Fram Review, 28 February, 2006 (ppt) (21 Mb) (pdf) (9.7 Mb)
  
• AGU Meeting, 11-15 December, 2006 Posters
  Metrics for Linear Kinematic Features in Sea Ice (1.1 Mb)
  Simulations of Sea-Ice Dynamics Using the Material-Point Method (13.4 Mb)
  Kinematics of Strong Discontinuities (5.3 Mb)