Derivation and analysis of a McPhee-like damping term for inertially oscillating ice drift (Q1067904)

It is shown that the empirical \textit{M. G. McPhee} [Dyn. Atmos. Oceans 2, 311-337 (1978)] damping term for inertial oscillations in time-dependent ice-ocean motion can be derived as a first-order correction when the air stress is quadratic in air relative to ice velocity. Analytical expressions are derived for the leading term transient ice and surface oceanic boundary-layer velocities and the mass transport function of a perturbation expansion in a small parameter \(\epsilon [O(10^{-1})- O(10^{-2})]\), the ratio of scale ice speed to air speed.