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The effect of long ice-coupled waves impinging on a tabular iceberg, an ice island or a thick sea ice floe trapped within a thin veneer of shore fast sea ice of substantial extent is considered. The waves most likely originate as ocean waves in the open sea beyond the fast ice boundary, from where they propagate into the sea ice. There their character is altered because of the flexural properties of the ice. The geophysical / engineering problem posed is solved by a Green's function method that redevelops, for a different surface boundary condition, an earlier study concerned with a freely floating ice floe. Reflection and transmission coefficients for the berg are found to depend strongly on its thickness and length. Amongst other things, the work relates to the operational safety of natural and artificially thickened Arctic ice platforms located in a contiguous ice sheet.
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Squire, V.A., Dixon, T.W. On modelling an iceberg embedded in shore-fast sea ice. Journal of Engineering Mathematics 40, 211–226 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017525232317
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