ice cover
Arctic surface feature
Ice cover is a layer of ice over a body of water, whether a frozen pond, a glaciated sea, or polar ice caps.
The term appears in climate discussions about shrinking Arctic ice cover and in practical contexts like navigation: The lake's ice cover wasn't thick enough for skating.
Ice cover can also describe frost or ice on surfaces like roads or aircraft wings.
- cryosphereEarth's frozen water systems
- freezingExtremely cold
- winter freezeExtended period of subfreezing temperatures
- thawingFrozen matter liquefying
- polar regionsEarth's coldest latitudes
frozen over · permafrost · snow · freeze-up · melting point · breaking up · tundra · calving · glacial retreat · Arctic Ocean · hydrology · sublimation · climate change · accumulation · white · floe · blanket · rime
- lake hydrologylake levels, lake depth, lake bed, water level, thermocline
- Water Monitoringwater clarity, water temperature, turbidity, algal blooms, lake depth
- wintersnow, cold, frozen, frost, icicle
- iceiceberg, floe, skating rink, rink, polar cap
- northern weatherblizzard, blizzards, snowfall, cold snap, cold
- Gulf of FinlandHelsinki, Tallinn, Saint Petersburg, Finland, Estonia