“…The basic stress and strain dependencies of the model satisfactorily simulate granular freshwater ice as demonstrated in a number of studies (Cole and Durell, 2001; Cole, 2003, 2004; Song and others, 2006 a , 2006 b , 2008), given attention to the value of ρ 0 . On the basis of the present effort, however, values of f 0 = 3 × 10 21 m −2 and Q ρ = 4.0054 × 10 −20 J (or 0.25 eV) in Eqn (3) were found for granular freshwater ice vs the above noted values for saline ice.…”