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D. Masson and P.H. LeBlond, Spectral Evolution of Wind-Generated Surface Gravity Waves in a Dispersed Ice Field, 
''J. Fluid Mech''., 202, pp 111-136.

This paper contains a model for [[:Category:Wave Scattering in the Marginal Ice Zone|Wave Scattering in the Marginal Ice Zone]] 
based on transport theory.
It marked a huge increase in sophistication of modelling, prehaps too much sophistication for
the geophysics community which largely ignored it. The model use the wave scattering code of
[[Michael Isaccson]] which was limited to axisymmetric rigid bodies to caluculate the small scale
scattering which limited the application. The paper also included effects due to wind forcing and
non-linear energy transfer. These effects (which were taken from standard models and were
completely derivative) probably served a negative purpose and obscured the very important results,
the development of a wave scattering model. [[Meylan_Masson_2006a | Meylan and Masson 2006]] 
have shown that under the appropriate limits the model reduces to a Boltzmann equation.

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