On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:06:38PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > --- On Sun, 7/12/09, Rich Kulawiec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > BTW, I've been doing some reading on sea ice breakup > > mechanisms -- some of which are well understood, some of which are > > partially understood -- and one of the things that's becoming clear > > is that cracking seems to have far more of an accelerative effect > > than previously thought.? > > This part is something I experimented with for seven years. > It shouldn't come as any surprise that darkening bright white ice > accelerates melting, and there's nothing like cracks and resultant > seepage to do the trick.
Oh, agreed, it's not a surprise that this happens. Where the uncertainty seems to lie is in the mathematical modeling of cracking -- that is, [some of] the models don't seem to fully account for the accelerative effects. I think this in turn partially explains why reality keeps turning out to be worse than forecast. ---Rsk _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
