Term: | Ice boundary |
Definition: | Sea ice terminology that describes the differentiation at any given time between fast ice and floating ice, or between areas of ice of different concentrations, types and/or floe sizes. |
Term: | Ice boundary |
Definition: | The demarcation between fast ice and drift ice or between different zones of drift ice. When used as a climatologic term, for describing the position of the boundary of spreading of ice of any concentration or age in any given month or a period based on the observation data for a number of years, the tem should be preceded by a word mean, median, minimum or maximum with indication of the ice cover characteristic after it. For example: Median boundary of multiyear close ice. |
Term: | Ice boundary |
Definition: | The demarcation at any given time between fast ice and pack ice or between areas of pack ice of different concentrations. |