Simple Rules Govern the Patterns of Arctic Sea Ice Melt Ponds

[morganism]

"Their "void" method starts by creating a series of random circles, allowing them to overlap and considering the voids between the circles as melt ponds.

This turns out to be quite effective at estimating how actual melt ponds form and behave, which they found by comparing them to aerial images of melts taken in 1998 and 2005."

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.148701

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-technique-accurately-ponds-arctic-sea.html

[Neven]

I've read this article two days ago and I don't think it's interesting enough to merit a thread of its own. Please, post in one of the threads on Arctic sea ice, or the Arctic Background section.