Development of a numerical model of sea ice for biogeochemical studies. Part 1: Sea-ice thermodynamics

This study is supported by the VECTOR project, funded by the Italian Ministry of the University and the Scientific Research. Collaboration with the Finnish Institute of Marine Research has started thanks to the “Marco Polo” scholarship awarded by the University of Bologna to the first author and it is going on in the framework of EUROceans, Network of Excellence. NCEP Reanalysis and ECMWF data have been provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/. The observed snow and ice thickness data have been provided by the Ice Service at the Finnish Institute of Marine Research. We are particularly grateful to Ari Seina for support with the observations.