| Term: | Temperate glacier |
| Definition: | A glacier consisting of temperate ice over its entire thickness and extent, except for a surface layer of the order of 1015 m thick which may experience seasonal cooling. By definition a temperate glacier is a wet-based glacier. |
| Term: | Temperate glacier |
| Definition: | Glacier in which the ice found below 10 to 20 meters from its surface is at the pressure melting point. One of the three types of glaciers: cold glacier; temperate glacier; and subpolar glacier. |
| Term: | Temperate glacier |
| Definition: | A glacier with a or temperature-regime in which liquid water coexists with frozen water (glacier ice) during part or even all of the year. |
| Term: | Temperate glacier |
| Definition: | A glacier whose temperature is at the pressure melting point throughout, except for a cold wave of limited penetration that occurs in winter. |
| Term: | Temperate glacier |
| Definition: | In Ahlmann's glacier classification, a glacier that, at the end of the melting season, is composed of firn, and ice at the melting point. |