Term: | Floeberg |
Definition: |
A massive piece of sea ice composed of a hummock or a group of hum- mocks, frozen together and separated from any ice surroundings. It may float up to 17 ft (5 m) above sea level. WMOSeaIce
A massive piece of sea ice composed of a hummock, or a group of hummocks frozen together, presenting a separate floating ice fragment in ice-free water or among separate ice fragments. It may protrude up to 5 m above sea-level. Bushuyev Sea ice terminology, describing a massive piece of ice composed of a hummock or a group of hummocks, frozen together and separated from any surrounding ice. They may typically protrude up to 5 m above water level. ECCCanada A mass of hummocked ice, formed by the piling up of many ice floes by lateral pressure; an extreme form of pressure ice. It may be more than 50 ft high and resemble an iceberg. AMSglossary GCW |