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New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium 2001
December 3-6, 2001
Massey University
Palmerston North, New Zealand

Organizers
Dr I. Boglaev, Dr M. Carter, Dr J. Hudson, Dr C. Little (convenor), Ass. Prof R. McLachlan, Ass. Prof C. Lai

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Wave Scattering in The Marginal Ice Zone
by
Synthia Darsono
Massey University
Coauthors: Dr. Michael Meylan (Massey University)

This talk will focus on the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) from a mathematical viewpoint. I shall present a preliminary discussion of wave scattering in the MIZ and several well-known models for this. The MIZ is regarded as the region of broken ice located between the open ocean and the region of continuous ice. There are many reasons why people model the interaction of ocean waves and sea ice. For example to extract the properties of sea ice, such as its rigidity and thickness, from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. Various models have been developed to understand how ocean waves and ice floes affect each other in the MIZ. Ocean waves affect the formation and deformation of ice field in the MIZ whilst ice floes affect the spectrum of the waves. We look at how the scattering model is used to explain these effects.

Date received: October 14, 2001

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