Modelling ice conditions in the easternmost Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea

In the case of no fast ice region and snow on ice, the model correctly simulates the spatial distribution of ice thickness seen on ice charts for the mild winter. Despite the absence of irregularities in wind forcing - which was assumed to be homogeneous over the model domain - the modelled ice thickness distributions included meso-scale features such as the ridged and rafted ice regions with increased ice thickness, and the regions of small ice thicknesses having a resemblance to polyniyas.