Frost smoke

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Term: Frost smoke
Definition: Fog-like clouds, due to the contact of cold air with relatively warm water, which appear over newly-formed leads, or leeward of the ice edge, and which may persist while new ice is forming.
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Created 2022.03.08
Last Modified 2023.03.27
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