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  <dc:creator>E.G. Josberger</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1983</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The heat and salt flux boundary conditions together with the freezing curve relationship are a necessary component of any ice-sea water thermodynamic model. A neutral two-layer oceanic planetary boundary layer model that incorporates these boundary conditions gives the following results: The interfacial salinity is within 10% of the far-field salinity for conditions commonly encountered in the MIZ and depends only on the turbulent Lewis number and the far-field temperature and salinity. The predicted melt rates agree with the limited field observations, of the order of 1 m day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup&gt;−1&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span&gt;. The Obukov lengths, determined from the predicted interface conditions and melt rates, are generally much greater than the Ekman layer thicknesses; hence, the surface buoyancy flux has little effect on the turbulence in the planetary boundary layer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1029/JC088iC05p02841</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>American Geophysical Union</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Sea ice melting in the marginal ice zone</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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