TY - JOUR T1 - Laboratory Experiments on Internal Solitary Waves in Ice‐Covered Waters A1 - Carr,Magda A1 - Sutherland,Peter A1 - Haase,Andrea A1 - Evers,Karl‐ulrich A1 - Fer,Ilker A1 - Jensen,Atle A1 - Kalisch,Henrik A1 - Berntsen,Jarle A1 - Părău,Emilian A1 - Thiem,Øyvind A1 - Davies,Peter AD - School of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, UK AD - IFREMER, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM Université de Bretagne Occidentale Brest ,France AD - HSVA, Hamburgische Schiffbau‐Versuchsanstalt GmbH Hamburg , Germany AD - solutions4arctic Hamburg , Germany AD - Geophysical Institute University of Bergen Bergen, Norway AD - Department of Mathematics University of Oslo Oslo ,Norway AD - Department of Mathematics University of Bergen Bergen ,Norway AD - School of Mathematics University of East Anglia Norwich, UK AD - Norwegian Public Roads Administration Bergen, Norway AD - Department of Civil Engineering University of Dundee Dundee, UK UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00593/70532/ DO - 10.1029/2019GL084710 KW - internal solitary waves KW - sea ice KW - Arctic Ocean N2 - Internal solitary waves (ISWs) propagating in a stably stratified two-layer fluid in which the upper boundary condition changes from open water to ice are studied for grease, level, and nilas ice. The ISW-induced current at the surface is capable of transporting the ice in the horizontal direction. In the level ice case, the transport speed of, relatively long ice floes, nondimensionalized by the wave speed is linearly dependent on the length of the ice floe nondimensionalized by the wave length. Measures of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation under the ice are comparable to those at the wave density interface. Moreover, in cases where the ice floe protrudes into the pycnocline, interaction with the ice edge can cause the ISW to break or even be destroyed by the process. The results suggest that interaction between ISWs and sea ice may be an important mechanism for dissipation of ISW energy in the Arctic Ocean. Y1 - 2019/11 PB - American Geophysical Union (AGU) JF - Geophysical Research Letters SN - 0094-8276 VL - 46 IS - 21 SP - 12230 EP - 12238 ID - 70532 ER -