<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-7.xsd"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Interaction of Sea Surface Ice Floes in Fluid Dynamical Eddy Simulations</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:abstract>The thermohaline instabilities imposed by sea ice floes on the surface ocean create submesoscale eddies which are poorly modelled in modern oceanographic or atmospheric models. This work compares a simple two-dimensional diffusive model to the MITgcm's three-dimensional shelf-ice functionality when calculating the change in ocean temperature variance over time.&#13;
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    A rough parameterization of the time required to equilibriate the ice-perturbed ocean according to the MITgcm can be derived by applying the MATLAB model with a diffusive constant equal to the MITgcm eddy diffusivity constant. This can be further crudely parameterized by analysizing the initial conditions of the surface ocean and relating one of two short algorithms described in-text. The eddy diffusivity, kappa, of the MITgcm was calculated by comparing the two models and found to exist O(10^3), though kappa=f(sigma). kappa varied somewhat with the complexity of the initial sea ice floe arrangement but remained within the order of magnitude.</mods:abstract><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Clay, Jacinta</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm authority="marcrelator" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cre">creator</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Fox-Kemper, Baylor</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm authority="marcrelator" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ths">thesis advisor</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Lee, Jung-Eun</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm>reader</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Lynch, Amanda</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm>reader</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="corporate"><mods:namePart>Brown University. Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">sponsor</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:originInfo><mods:copyrightDate>2019</mods:copyrightDate></mods:originInfo><mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource><mods:physicalDescription><mods:digitalOrigin>born digital</mods:digitalOrigin></mods:physicalDescription><mods:language><mods:languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="text" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2.html" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng">English</mods:languageTerm></mods:language><mods:note type="thesis">Senior thesis (ScB)--Brown University, 2019</mods:note><mods:note displayLabel="Concentration">Geophysics-Math</mods:note><mods:genre authority="aat">theses</mods:genre><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01110029"><mods:topic>Sea ice</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01024392"><mods:topic>Models and modelmaking</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00902406"><mods:topic>Eddies--Mathematical models</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:accessCondition type="rights statement" xlink:href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</mods:accessCondition><mods:accessCondition type="restriction on access">Collection is open for research.</mods:accessCondition></mods:mods>