seasonal ice
Temporary frozen water
Seasonal ice is ice that forms and melts within a single year, typically freezing in winter and thawing in spring or summer.
The term appears most often in discussions of sea ice, lake ice, and polar regions: Climate change has increased the proportion of seasonal ice relative to perennial ice.
Contrast with perennial ice, which persists across multiple years.
- ice floeFloating polar mass
- freezeBecome solid from cold
- ice roadRoad on frozen water
- thin icePrecarious situation
- frozen lakeWinter-hardened body of water
breakup · spring thaw · cryosphere · meltwater · thaw · ice core analysis · tundra · Arctic Ocean · Northwest Passage · ice fishing · migration · winter tourism · polar bear · Arctic wildlife · boreal forest · breeding ground · alpine lake · snowpack
- ice tradeice houses, icehouses, ice blocks, natural ice, ice man
- lake icelake ice, frozen lake, frozen lakes, ice cover, thin ice
- Cold Desertscold desert, Gobi Desert, polar desert, Antarctic, Gobi
temporal permanence
seasonal iceglacial ice
Compressed snow becoming solid
ice sheet · ice cap · polar ice cap · glacier · ancient ice