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Specialty Expressions: ICE COVER

ExpressionsDomainDefinition
Consolidated ice coverEngineeringIce cover formed by the packing and freezing together of floes, brash ice and other forms of floating ice. (references)
Duration of ice coverEngineeringThe time from freeze-up to break-up of an ice cover. (references)
Ice CoverEngineeringA significant expanse of ice of any possible form on the surface of a body of water. (references)
Ice coverWeatherDuring the present time, the extent, especially the thickness, of glacier ice on a land surface. Also the same as ice concentration, which is the ratio of an area of sea ice to the total area of sea surface within some large geographic area. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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