Ocean Science www.ocean-sci.net 1812-0784 1812-0792 2 2 2006 10.5194/os-2-201-2006 http://www.ocean-sci.net/2/201/2006/ http://www.ocean-sci.net/2/201/2006/os-2-201-2006.html http://www.ocean-sci.net/2/201/2006/os-2-201-2006.pdf 201 211 2006-10-23 Results from the implementation of the Elastic Viscous Plastic sea ice rheology in HadCM3 W. M. Connolley wmc@bas.ac.uk A. B. Keen A. J. McLaren British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK We present results of an implementation of the Elastic Viscous Plastic (EVP) sea ice dynamics scheme into the Hadley Centre coupled ocean-atmosphere climate model HadCM3. Although the large-scale simulation of sea ice in HadCM3 is quite good with this model, the lack of a full dynamical model leads to errors in the detailed representation of sea ice and limits our confidence in its future predictions. 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