TY - JOUR
T1 - Fractal scaling behavior of a sea ice draft field in the Chukchi Sea
AU - Frazier, Kelsey
AU - Gerges, Firas
AU - Boufadel, Michel C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Oil Spill Recovery Institute Graduate Research Fellowship [Grant number 21-10-06 ].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - In the event that an Arctic oil spill occurs, oil spill modelers need to understand how oil moves along the subsurface of sea ice to predict how a slick will migrate. Currently, modeling the subsurface topography of sea ice has been hampered by a lack of understanding of this complex surface. Using sonar data from the Chukchi Sea, an investigation into whether this subsurface topography exhibited fractal scaling behavior was initiated. It was established that young sea ice exhibits multifractal scaling geometry parameters α, c1, and H as 1.2, 0.03, and 0.12, respectively. Fractal scaling behavior was not found for other types of sea ice. Having established such an analysis is useful, future efforts to expand the work are suggested.
AB - In the event that an Arctic oil spill occurs, oil spill modelers need to understand how oil moves along the subsurface of sea ice to predict how a slick will migrate. Currently, modeling the subsurface topography of sea ice has been hampered by a lack of understanding of this complex surface. Using sonar data from the Chukchi Sea, an investigation into whether this subsurface topography exhibited fractal scaling behavior was initiated. It was established that young sea ice exhibits multifractal scaling geometry parameters α, c1, and H as 1.2, 0.03, and 0.12, respectively. Fractal scaling behavior was not found for other types of sea ice. Having established such an analysis is useful, future efforts to expand the work are suggested.
KW - Arctic
KW - Fractal scaling
KW - Sea ice
KW - Universal multifractal model
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U2 - 10.1016/j.chaos.2022.112031
DO - 10.1016/j.chaos.2022.112031
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85127857883
SN - 0960-0779
VL - 158
JO - Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
JF - Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
M1 - 112031
ER -