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most citedSea ice floes dissipate the energy of steep ocean waves

67 citations · 472 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

math-ph2026

Particle, kinetic and hydrodynamic models for sea ice floes. Part II: Rotating floes with environmental forces

Quanling Deng, Seung-Yeal Ha, Jaemoon Lee +2

This paper builds on the multiscale modeling framework introduced in Part I (Deng and Ha, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 483 (2025) 134951) for sea-ice floe dynamics with non-rotat…

physics.ao-ph2025

Wave Attenuation in Drifting Sea Ice: A Mechanistic Model for Observed Decay Profiles

Rhys Ransome, Davide Proment, Ian A. Renfrew +1

Wave-sea ice interactions shape the transition zone between open ocean and pack ice in the polar regions. Most theoretical paradigms, implemented in coupled wave-sea ice models, pr…

physics.ao-ph2025

Fine-Scale Heterogeneity of Snow Cover in the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone

Ippolita Tersigni, Filippo Nelli, Emiliano Cimoli +6

Snow cover on Antarctic sea ice is highly heterogeneous, yet climate models have historically simplified it to a uniform layer in winter and bare ice in summer, introducing uncerta…

math.AP2024

Parameter-free higher-order Schrodinger systems with weak dissipation and forcing

Jack Keeler, Alberto Alberello, Ben Humphries +1

The higher-order nonlinear Schrodinger equation (Dysthe's equation in the context of water-waves) models the time evolution of the slowly modulated amplitude of a wave-packet in di…

physics.ao-ph2024★ 1 cited

Sea ice floe segmentation in close-range optical imagery using active contour and foundation models

Giulio Passerotti, Alberto Alberello, Marcello Vichi +3

The size of sea ice floes in the marginal ice zone (MIZ) is a key factor influencing ice coverage, albedo, wave propagation, and ocean--atmosphere energy exchanges. Floe size can b…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 4 cited

Modulational instability of nonuniformly damped, broad-banded waves: applications to waves in sea-ice

Raphael Stuhlmeier, Conor Heffernan, Alberto Alberello +1

This paper sets out to explore the modulational (or Benjamin-Feir) instability of a monochromatic wave propagating in the presence of damping such as that induced by sea-ice on the…

physics.ao-ph2023

Observations of rogue seas in the Southern Ocean

Alessandro Toffoli, Alberto Alberello, Hans Clarke +6

We report direct observations of surface waves from a stereo camera system along with concurrent measurements of wind speed during an expedition across the Southern Ocean in the au…

physics.ao-ph2022★ 17 cited

A dissipative Nonlinear Schrödinger model for wave propagation in the marginal ice zone

Alberto Alberello, Emilian Parau

Sea ice attenuates waves propagating from the open ocean. Here we model the evolution of energetic unidirectional random waves in the marginal ice zone with a nonlinear Schrödinger…

physics.ao-ph2021★ 37 cited

Interactions between irregular wave fields and sea ice: A physical model for wave attenuation and ice breakup in an ice tank

Giulio Passerotti, Luke G. Bennetts, Franz von Bock und Polach +5

Irregular, unidirectional surface water waves incident on model ice in an ice tank are used as a physical model of ocean surface wave interactions with sea ice. Results are given f…

physics.flu-dyn2021

A computational fluid dynamics model for the small-scale dynamics of wave, ice floe and interstitial grease ice interaction

Rutger Marquart, Alfred Bogaers, Sebastian Skatulla +4

The marginal ice zone is a highly dynamical region where sea ice and ocean waves interact. Large-scale sea ice models only compute domain-averaged responses. As the majority of the…

physics.ao-ph2021★ 53 cited

Three-dimensional imaging of waves and floe sizes in the marginal ice zone during an explosive cyclone

Alberto Alberello, Luke Bennetts, Miguel Onorato +11

The marginal ice zone is the dynamic interface between the open ocean and consolidated inner pack ice. Surface gravity waves regulate marginal ice zone extent and properties, and,…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 18 cited

Fourier Amplitude Distribution and Intermittency in Mechanically Generated Surface Gravity Waves

Elmira Fadaeiazar, Justin Leontini, Miguel Onorato +3

We examine and discuss the spatial evolution of the statistical properties of mechanically generated surface gravity wave fields, initialised with unidirectional spectral energy di…

physics.ao-ph2019★ 63 cited

Drift of pancake ice floes in the winter Antarctic marginal ice zone during polar cyclones

Alberto Alberello, Luke Bennetts, Petra Heil +5

High temporal resolution in--situ measurements of pancake ice drift are presented, from a pair of buoys deployed on floes in the Antarctic marginal ice zone during the winter sea i…

physics.ao-ph2018★ 52 cited

Hydroelastic interactions between water waves and floating freshwater ice

Azam Dolatshah, Filippo Nelli, Luke G. Bennetts +4

Hydroelastic interactions between regular water waves and floating freshwater ice are investigated using laboratory experiments for a range of incident wave periods and steepnesses…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 17 cited

Wave turbulence and intermittency in directional sea states

Elmira Fadaeiazar, Alberto Alberello, Miguel Onorato +4

The evolution of surface gravity waves is driven by nonlinear interactions that trigger an energy cascade similarly to the one observed in hydrodynamic turbulence. This process, kn…

physics.ao-ph2017★ 48 cited

An experimental comparison of velocities underneath focussed breaking waves

Alberto Alberello, Amin Chabchoub, Jason Monty +4

Nonlinear wave interactions affect the evolution of steep wave groups, their breaking and the associated kinematic field. Laboratory experiments are performed to investigate the ef…

physics.ao-ph2017★ 20 cited

Observation of turbulence in wave-induced oscillatory flows

Alberto Alberello, Federico Frascoli, Miguel Onorato +1

The dynamic and thermal regimes of climate are regulated by an exchange of energy and momentum between the atmosphere and the ocean. The role exerted by surface waves on this inter…

physics.flu-dyn2015★ 12 cited

Non-Gaussian properties of second-order wave orbital velocity

Alberto Alberello, Amin Chabchoub, Odin Gramstad +2

A stochastic second-order wave model is applied to assess the statistical properties of wave orbital velocity in random sea states below the water surface. Directional spreading ef…

physics.flu-dyn2015★ 67 cited

Sea ice floes dissipate the energy of steep ocean waves

Alessandro Toffoli, Luke G. Bennetts, Michael H. Meylan +4

Wave attenuation by ice floes is an important parameter for modelling the Arctic Oceans. At present, attenuation coefficients are extracted from linear models as a function of the…

physics.ao-ph2015★ 63 cited

An idealised experimental model of ocean surface wave transmission by an ice floe

Luke Bennetts, Alberto Alberello, Michael Meylan +3

An experimental model of transmission of ocean waves by an ice floe is presented. Thin plastic plates with different material properties and thicknesses are used to model the floe.…

physics.flu-dyn2014

An experimental model of reflection and transmission of ocean waves by an ice floe

Alessandro Toffoli, Alberto Alberello, Luke G. Bennetts +3

An experimental model of reflection and transmission of ocean waves by an ice floe is presented. Evolution of mechanically-generated, regular waves is monitored in front and in the…