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Please add ridging process #1388

Open rduerr opened 1 year ago

rduerr commented 1 year ago

this GCW term is also in SWEET as http://sweetontology.net/phenSolid/Ridging

The GCW definition is the pressure process by which ice is forced into ridges

I note that the two main pressure processes that create ridges are the wind pushing on the ice and ocean currents dragging the ice along. I suggest perhaps there are 2 processes here that should be parallel to http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01001843 atmosphere-ocean momentum transfer process like perhaps a atmosphere-sea-ice momentum transfer process and an ocean-current-sea-ice momentum transfer process? There is likely also some sort of shore effects where ridging occurs because wind and currents are pushing the ice up against something solid (either shallow waters or land) which could create ridges where the shore fast ice ends... Sea ice ridges are the obvious result of these processes!