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324 relations: Absolute zero, Achaemenid Empire, Adiabatic process, American Meteorological Society, Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, Anchor ice, Annelid, Antarctic ice sheet, Antarctica, Archimedes' principle, Arctic, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Arctic Ocean, Arctic sea ice decline, Army Group North, Ars Technica, Arthur Whitten Brown, ASHRAE, ASHRAE Handbook, Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, Atmosphere, Atmosphere of Earth, Atmospheric icing, Atmospheric pressure, Atomic force microscopy, Aufeis, Bald notothen, Bandy, Bavaria, BBC, BBC News, Bering Sea, Black ice, Bobsleigh, Bow (watercraft), British English, Broomball, Canal Park, Duluth, Minnesota, Capsizing, Car, Carbon dioxide, Carburetor, Carburetor heat, Celsius, Charleston, South Carolina, Chemical impurity, Clathrate hydrate, Climate, Climate change, Cloud, ... Expand index (274 more) »
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Absolute zero
Absolute zero is the lowest limit of the thermodynamic temperature scale; a state at which the enthalpy and entropy of a cooled ideal gas reach their minimum value, taken as zero kelvin.
Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
Adiabatic process
An adiabatic process (adiabatic) is a type of thermodynamic process that occurs without transferring heat or mass between the thermodynamic system and its environment.
American Meteorological Society
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is a scientific and professional organization in the United States promoting and disseminating information about the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic sciences.
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Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station
The Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station is a United States scientific research station at the South Pole of the Earth.
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Anchor ice
Anchor ice is defined by the World Meteorological Organization as "submerged ice attached or anchored to the bottom, irrespective of the nature of its formation".
Annelid
The annelids (Annelida, from Latin anellus, "little ring"), also known as the segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.
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Antarctic ice sheet
The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of and an average thickness of over. Ice and Antarctic ice sheet are glaciology.
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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
Archimedes' principle
Archimedes' principle (also spelled Archimedes's principle) states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces.
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Arctic
The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.
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Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
The Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, or AARI (translit, abbreviated as ААНИИ) is the oldest and largest Russian research institute in the field of comprehensive studies of Arctic and Antarctica.
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Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions.
Arctic sea ice decline
Sea ice in the Arctic region has declined in recent decades in area and volume due to climate change.
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Army Group North
Army Group North (Heeresgruppe Nord) was the name of three separate army groups of the Wehrmacht during World War II.
Ars Technica
Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.
Arthur Whitten Brown
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, (23 July 1886 – 4 October 1948) was a British military officer and aviator who flew as navigator of the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight with pilot John Alcock in June 1919.
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ASHRAE
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) is an American professional association seeking to advance heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC&R) systems design and construction.
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ASHRAE Handbook
The ASHRAE Handbook is the four-volume flagship publication of the nonprofit technical organization ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers).
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the main ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean. Ice and Atlantic meridional overturning circulation are Oceanography.
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Atmosphere
An atmosphere is a layer of gasses that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object.
Atmosphere of Earth
The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively as air, with variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates (which create weather features such as clouds and hazes), all retained by Earth's gravity.
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Atmospheric icing
Atmospheric icing occurs in the atmosphere when water droplets suspended in air freeze on objects they come in contact with.
Atmospheric pressure
Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.
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Atomic force microscopy
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) or scanning force microscopy (SFM) is a very-high-resolution type of scanning probe microscopy (SPM), with demonstrated resolution on the order of fractions of a nanometer, more than 1000 times better than the optical diffraction limit.
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Aufeis
Aufeis (German for "ice on top") is a sheet-like mass of layered ice that forms from successive flows of ground or river water during freezing temperatures. Ice and Aufeis are glaciology and water ice.
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Bald notothen
The bald notothen (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), also known as the bald rockcod, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes.
Bandy
Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.
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Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
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Bering Sea
The Bering Sea (p) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean.
Black ice
Black ice, sometimes called clear ice, is a coating of glaze ice on a surface, for example on streets or on lakes. Ice and Black ice are water ice.
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh.
Bow (watercraft)
The bow is the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is usually most forward when the vessel is underway.
British English
British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.
Broomball
Broomball is a both a recreational and organized competitive winter team sport played on ice or snow and is played either indoors or outdoors, depending on climate and location.
Canal Park, Duluth, Minnesota
Canal Park is a tourist and recreation-oriented district of Duluth, Minnesota, United States.
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Capsizing
Capsizing or keeling over occurs when a boat or ship is rolled on its side or further by wave action, instability or wind force beyond the angle of positive static stability or it is upside down in the water.
Car
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.
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Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
Carburetor
A carburetor (also spelled carburettor or carburetter) is a device used by a gasoline internal combustion engine to control and mix air and fuel entering the engine.
Carburetor heat
Carburetor heat (usually abbreviated to 'carb heat') is a system used in automobile and piston-powered light aircraft engines to prevent or clear carburetor icing.
Celsius
The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius temperature scale "Celsius temperature scale, also called centigrade temperature scale, scale based on 0 ° for the melting point of water and 100 ° for the boiling point of water at 1 atm pressure." (originally known as the centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the closely related Kelvin scale.
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Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area.
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Chemical impurity
In chemistry and materials science, impurities are chemical substances inside a confined amount of liquid, gas, or solid.
Clathrate hydrate
Clathrate hydrates, or gas hydrates, clathrates, or hydrates, are crystalline water-based solids physically resembling ice, in which small non-polar molecules (typically gases) or polar molecules with large hydrophobic moieties are trapped inside "cages" of hydrogen bonded, frozen water molecules.
Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
Cloud
In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space.
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Cloud condensation nuclei
Cloud condensation nuclei (CCNs), also known as cloud seeds, are small particles typically 0.2 μm, or one hundredth the size of a cloud droplet.
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Cloud seeding
Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation, mitigate hail or disperse fog.
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Convection
Convection is single or multiphase fluid flow that occurs spontaneously due to the combined effects of material property heterogeneity and body forces on a fluid, most commonly density and gravity (see buoyancy).
Cooler
A cooler, portable ice chest, ice box, cool box, chilly bin (in New Zealand), or esky (Australia) is an insulated box used to keep food or drink cool.
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Copepod
Copepods (meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat.
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Corfu
Corfu or Kerkyra (Kérkyra) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the nation's northwestern frontier with Albania.
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Coulomb's law
Coulomb's inverse-square law, or simply Coulomb's law, is an experimental law of physics that calculates the amount of force between two electrically charged particles at rest.
Covalent bond
A covalent bond is a chemical bond that involves the sharing of electrons to form electron pairs between atoms.
Cryosphere
The cryosphere is an umbrella term for those portions of Earth's surface where water is in solid form.
Crystal
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.
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Crystal structure
In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of ordered arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a crystalline material.
Cubic crystal system
In crystallography, the cubic (or isometric) crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube.
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Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles.
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Dülmen
Dülmen is a town in the district of Coesfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Deciduous
In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.
Defogger
A defogger, demister, or defroster is a system to clear condensation and thaw frost from the windshield, backglass, or side windows of a motor vehicle.
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Delivery (commerce)
Delivery is the process of transporting goods from a source location to a predefined destination.
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Density
Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume.
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Deposition (phase transition)
Deposition is the phase transition in which gas transforms into solid without passing through the liquid phase.
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Diameter
In geometry, a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the centre of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle.
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Diamond dust
Diamond dust is a ground-level cloud composed of tiny ice crystals. Ice and Diamond dust are water ice.
Dirt
Dirt is any matter considered unclean, especially when in contact with a person's clothes, skin, or possessions.
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Dirt track racing
Dirt track racing is a form of motorsport held on clay or dirt surfaced banked oval race tracks.
Drift ice
Drift ice, also called brash ice, is sea ice that is not attached to the shoreline or any other fixed object (shoals, grounded icebergs, etc.).Leppäranta, M. 2011. Ice and Drift ice are Oceanography.
Dry ice
Dry ice colloquially means the solid form of carbon dioxide.
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Dust
Dust is made of fine particles of solid matter.
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Dynamite
Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and stabilizers.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Earth's energy budget
Earth's energy budget (or Earth's energy balance) accounts for the balance between the energy that Earth receives from the Sun and the energy the Earth loses back into outer space. Ice and Earth's energy budget are Oceanography.
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East Antarctic Ice Sheet
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) lies between 45° west and 168° east longitudinally.
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Eddy (fluid dynamics)
In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid is in a turbulent flow regime.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
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Emperor penguin
The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica.
Enthalpy of fusion
In thermodynamics, the enthalpy of fusion of a substance, also known as (latent) heat of fusion, is the change in its enthalpy resulting from providing energy, typically heat, to a specific quantity of the substance to change its state from a solid to a liquid, at constant pressure.
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Entrainment (meteorology)
Entrainment is a phenomenon of the atmosphere which occurs when a turbulent flow captures a non-turbulent flow.
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European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.
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Fahrenheit
The Fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the European physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736).
Fast ice
Fast ice (also called land-fast ice, landfast ice, and shore-fast ice) is sea ice that is "fastened" to the coastline, to the sea floor along shoals, or to grounded icebergs. Ice and Fast ice are glaciology.
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Federal Aviation Administration
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation which regulates civil aviation in the United States and surrounding international waters.
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Ford Thunderbird
The Ford Thunderbird (colloquially called the T-Bird) is a personal luxury car manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company from model years 1955 to 2005 (with a 1997–2002 hiatus), across 11 generations.
Frazil ice
Frazil ice is a collection of loose, randomly oriented ice crystals millimeter and sub-millimeter in size, with various shapes, e.g. elliptical disks, dendrites, needles and of an irregular nature. Ice and Frazil ice are water ice.
Frederic Tudor
Frederic Tudor (September 4, 1783 – February 6, 1864) was an American businessman and merchant.
Freezing
Freezing is a phase transition in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point.
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Freezing rain
Freezing rain is rain maintained at temperatures below freezing by the ambient air mass that causes freezing on contact with surfaces.
Fresh water
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.
Friction
Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.
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Frigidaire
Frigidaire Appliance Company is the American consumer and commercial home appliances brand subsidiary of multinational company Electrolux, a Swedish multinational home appliance manufacturer, headquartered in Stockholm.
Frost
Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor that deposits onto a freezing surface. Ice and Frost are water ice.
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Frost heaving
Frost heaving (or a frost heave) is an upwards swelling of soil during freezing conditions caused by an increasing presence of ice as it grows towards the surface, upwards from the depth in the soil where freezing temperatures have penetrated into the soil (the freezing front or freezing boundary). Ice and frost heaving are glaciology.
Frost weathering
Frost weathering is a collective term for several mechanical weathering processes induced by stresses created by the freezing of water into ice. Ice and Frost weathering are water ice.
Fuel injection
Fuel injection is the introduction of fuel in an internal combustion engine, most commonly automotive engines, by the means of an injector.
Ganymede (moon)
Ganymede, or Jupiter III, is the largest and most massive natural satellite of Jupiter and in the Solar System.
Geographical pole
A geographical pole or geographic pole is either of the two points on Earth where its axis of rotation intersects its surface.
Geometrical frustration
In condensed matter physics, the term geometrical frustration (or in short: frustration) refers to a phenomenon where atoms tend to stick to non-trivial positions or where, on a regular crystal lattice, conflicting inter-atomic forces (each one favoring rather simple, but different structures) lead to quite complex structures.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. Ice and glacier are glaciology.
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Glaze (ice)
Glaze or glaze ice, also called glazed frost or verglas, is a smooth, transparent and homogeneous ice coating occurring when freezing rain or drizzle hits a surface. Ice and glaze (ice) are water ice.
Graupel
Graupel, also called soft hail or snow pellets, is precipitation that forms when supercooled water droplets in air are collected and freeze on falling snowflakes, forming balls of crisp, opaque rime.
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Grease ice
Grease ice is a very thin, soupy layer of frazil crystals clumped together, which makes the ocean surface resemble an oil slick.
Greenhouse gas
Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the gases in the atmosphere that raise the surface temperature of planets such as the Earth.
Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities intensify the greenhouse effect.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Greenland ice sheet
The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world.
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Gwrych Castle
Gwrych Castle (Castell Gwrych) is a Grade I listed country house near Abergele in Conwy County Borough, Wales.
Hail
Hail is a form of solid precipitation. Ice and Hail are water ice.
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Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival
The Harbin International Ice and Snow festival is an annual winter festival that takes place with a theme in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, and now is the largest ice and snow festival in the world. Ice and Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival are water ice.
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Harbor
A harbor (American English), or harbour (Canadian English, British English; see spelling differences), is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be moored.
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Heat
In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference.
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Heat wave
A heat wave or heatwave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather.
Hexagonal crystal family
In crystallography, the hexagonal crystal family is one of the 6 crystal families, which includes two crystal systems (hexagonal and trigonal) and two lattice systems (hexagonal and rhombohedral).
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Hindu Kush
The Hindu Kush is an mountain range on the Iranian Plateau in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas.
Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments is the name used by UNESCO when it collectively designated the historic core of the Russian city of St. Petersburg, as well as buildings and ensembles located in the immediate vicinity as a World Heritage Site in 1991.
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Humidity
Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air.
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Hydrogen atom
A hydrogen atom is an atom of the chemical element hydrogen.
Hydrogen bond
In chemistry, a hydrogen bond (or H-bond) is primarily an electrostatic force of attraction between a hydrogen (H) atom which is covalently bonded to a more electronegative "donor" atom or group (Dn), and another electronegative atom bearing a lone pair of electrons—the hydrogen bond acceptor (Ac).
Hydropower
Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines.
Ibn Abi Usaybi'a
Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa Muʾaffaq al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Al-Qāsim Ibn Khalīfa al-Khazrajī (ابن أبي أصيبعة‎; 1203–1270), commonly referred to as Ibn Abi Usaibia (also Usaibi'ah, Usaybea, Usaibi`a, Usaybiʿah, etc.), was a physician from Syria in the 13th century CE.
Ice calving
Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier. Ice and ice calving are glaciology.
Ice cap
In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than of land area (usually covering a highland area).
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Ice circle
Ice discs, ice circles, ice pans, ice pancakes or ice crepes are a very rare natural phenomenon that occurs in slow moving water in cold climates. Ice and ice circle are water ice.
Ice climbing
Ice climbing is a climbing discipline that involves ascending routes consisting of frozen water.
Ice crystal
Ice crystals are solid ice in symmetrical shapes including hexagonal columns, hexagonal plates, and dendritic crystals. Ice and ice crystal are water ice.
Ice cube
An ice cube is a small piece of ice, which is typically rectangular as viewed from above and trapezoidal as viewed from the side. Ice and ice cube are water ice.
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Ice dam (roof)
An ice dam is an ice build-up on the eaves of sloped roofs of heated buildings that results from melting snow under a snow pack reaching the eave and freezing there. Ice and ice dam (roof) are water ice.
Ice eggs
Ice eggs, or ice balls, are a rare phenomenon caused by a process in which small pieces of sea ice in open water are rolled over by wind and currents in freezing conditions and grow into spheroid pieces of ice.
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Ice field
An ice field (also spelled icefield) is a mass of interconnected valley glaciers (also called mountain glaciers or alpine glaciers) on a mountain mass with protruding rock ridges or summits.
Ice fishing
Ice fishing is the practice of catching fish with lines and fish hooks or spears through an opening in the ice on a frozen body of water. Ice and ice fishing are water ice.
Ice floe
An ice floe is a large pack of floating ice often defined as a flat piece at least 20 m across at its widest point, and up to more than 10 km across.
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Ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.
Ice hotel
An ice hotel is a temporary hotel made up of snow and sculpted blocks of ice.
Ice house (building)
An ice house, or icehouse, is a building used to store ice throughout the year, commonly used prior to the invention of the refrigerator.
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Ice jam
Ice jams occur when a topographic feature of the river causes floating river ice to accumulate and impede further progress downstream with the river current. Ice and ice jam are glaciology.
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Ice mélange
Ice mélange refers to a mixture of sea ice types, icebergs, and snow without a clearly defined floe that forms from shearing and fracture at the ice front.
Ice pack
An ice pack or gel pack is a portable bag filled with water, refrigerant gel, or liquid, meant to provide cooling.
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Ice palace
An ice palace or ice castle is a castle-like structure made of blocks of ice. Ice and ice palace are water ice.
Ice pier
An ice pier or ice wharf is a man-made structure used to assist the unloading of ships in Antarctica.
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Ice racing
Ice racing is a form of racing that uses cars, motorcycles, snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, or other motorized vehicles.
Ice rink
An ice rink (or ice skating rink) is a frozen body of water and/or an artificial sheet of ice where people can ice skate or play winter sports.
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Ice road
An ice road or ice bridge is a human-made structure that runs on a frozen water surface (a river, a lake or a sea water expanse).
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Ice rules
In chemistry, ice rules are basic principles that govern arrangement of atoms in water ice. Ice and ice rules are water ice.
Ice scraper
An ice scraper is a handheld tool for removing frost, ice, and snow from windows, usually on automobiles.
Ice sculpture
Ice sculpture is a form of sculpture that uses ice as the raw material.
Ice sheet
In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than. Ice and ice sheet are cryosphere, glaciology and water ice.
Ice shelf
An ice shelf is a large platform of glacial ice floating on the ocean, fed by one or multiple tributary glaciers. Ice and ice shelf are water ice.
Ice shove
An ice shove (also known as fast ice, an ice surge, ice push, ice heave, shoreline ice pileup, ice piling, ice thrust, ice tsunami, ice ride-up, or ivu in Iñupiat) is a surge of ice from an ocean or large lake onto the shore.
Ice skating
Ice skating is the self-propulsion and gliding of a person across an ice surface, using metal-bladed ice skates.
Ice storage air conditioning
Ice storage air conditioning is the process of using ice for thermal energy storage.
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Ice storm
An ice storm, also known as a glaze event or a silver storm, is a type of winter storm characterized by freezing rain.
Ice stream
An ice stream is a region of fast-moving ice within an ice sheet.
Ice volcano
An ice volcano is a conical mound of ice formed over a terrestrial lake via the eruption of water and slush through an ice shelf. Ice and ice volcano are glaciology.
Ice–albedo feedback
Ice–albedo feedback is a climate change feedback, where a change in the area of ice caps, glaciers, and sea ice alters the albedo and surface temperature of a planet.
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Iceberg
An iceberg is a piece of freshwater ice more than long that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.
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Iceboat
An iceboat (occasionally spelled ice boat or traditionally called an ice yacht) is a recreational or competition sailing craft supported on metal runners for traveling over ice.
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Icebox
An icebox (also called a cold closet) is a compact non-mechanical refrigerator which was a common early-twentieth-century kitchen appliance before the development of safely powered refrigeration devices. Ice and icebox are water ice.
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Icebreaker
An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships.
Icemaker
An icemaker, ice generator, or ice machine may refer to either a consumer device for making ice, found inside a home freezer; a stand-alone appliance for making ice, or an industrial machine for making ice on a large scale. Ice and icemaker are water ice.
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Icicle
An icicle is a spike of ice formed when water falling from an object freezes. Ice and icicle are water ice.
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Igloo
An igloo (Inuit languages: iglu, Inuktitut syllabics ᐃᒡᓗ (plural: igluit ᐃᒡᓗᐃᑦ)), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of suitable snow.
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Interstellar ice
Interstellar ice consists of grains of volatiles in the ice phase that form in the interstellar medium. Ice and interstellar ice are water ice.
Interstellar medium
The interstellar medium (ISM) is the matter and radiation that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy.
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Irrigation sprinkler
An irrigation sprinkler (also known as a water sprinkler or simply a sprinkler) is a device used to irrigate (water) agricultural crops, lawns, landscapes, golf courses, and other areas.
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Jet fuel
Jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF, also abbreviated avtur) is a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines.
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John Alcock (RAF officer)
Captain Sir John William Alcock (5 November 189219 December 1919) was a British Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland in June 1919.
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Kelvin
The kelvin, symbol K, is the base unit of measurement for temperature in the International System of Units (SI).
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Kilogram-force
The kilogram-force (kgf or kgF), or kilopond (kp, from lit), is a non-standard gravitational metric unit of force.
Krill
Krill (Euphausiids), (krill) are small and exclusively marine crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, found in all the world's oceans.
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Lake Balaton
Lake Balaton is a freshwater rift lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary.
Lake Ladoga
Lake Ladoga (Ladozhskoye ozero, or label,; Laatokka;; Ladog, Ladoganjärv) is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, in the vicinity of Saint Petersburg.
Latent heat
Latent heat (also known as latent energy or heat of transformation) is energy released or absorbed, by a body or a thermodynamic system, during a constant-temperature process—usually a first-order phase transition, like melting or condensation.
Lead (sea ice)
A lead (rhymes with "reed") is a large fracture within an expanse of sea ice, defining a linear area of open water that can be used for navigation purposes.
List of ice and snow sculpture events
Ice Festival, Ice and Snow Festival, or Snow and Ice Festival may refer to one of the following events.
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Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh
Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh (1788–1861) was the owner of the Gwrych Castle estate in the historic county of Denbighshire, Wales.
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Luge
A luge is a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face-up) and feet-first.
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Macroscopic quantum phenomena
Macroscopic quantum phenomena are processes showing quantum behavior at the macroscopic scale, rather than at the atomic scale where quantum effects are prevalent.
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Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers
Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers is a comprehensive handbook for the field of mechanical engineering.
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McMurdo Sound
The McMurdo Sound is a sound in Antarctica, known as the southernmost passable body of water in the world, located approximately from the South Pole.
Melting
Melting, or fusion, is a physical process that results in the phase transition of a substance from a solid to a liquid.
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Melting point
The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid.
Meltwater
Meltwater (or melt water) is water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice, tabular icebergs and ice shelves over oceans. Ice and Meltwater are glaciology.
Mercury (planet)
Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System.
Metal
A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.
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METAR
METAR is a format for reporting weather information.
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Metastability
In chemistry and physics, metastability is an intermediate energetic state within a dynamical system other than the system's state of least energy.
Midnight sun
Midnight sun, also known as polar day, is a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer months in places north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle, when the Sun remains visible at the local midnight.
Mineral
In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form. Ice and mineral are minerals.
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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Ice and Mining are minerals.
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Minke whale
The minke whale, or lesser rorqual, is a species complex of baleen whale.
Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States.
Mohs scale
The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a qualitative ordinal scale, from 1 to 10, characterizing scratch resistance of minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material.
Molecule
A molecule is a group of two or more atoms held together by attractive forces known as chemical bonds; depending on context, the term may or may not include ions which satisfy this criterion.
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MOSAiC Expedition
The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition was a one-year-long expedition into the Central Arctic (September 2019 - October 2020).
Motor Trend
MotorTrend is an American automobile magazine.
Murmansk
Murmansk (Мурманск; Мурман ланнҍ; Muurman and Murmánska) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia.
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National Assembly (Hungary)
The National Assembly (lit) is the parliament of Hungary.
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National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.
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Noctilucent cloud
Noctilucent clouds (NLCs), or night shining clouds, are tenuous cloud-like phenomena in the upper atmosphere of Earth.
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states, it is also the most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of, it is the fourth-largest German state by size.
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Ocean heat content
Ocean heat content (OHC) or ocean heat uptake (OHU) is the energy absorbed and stored by oceans. Ice and ocean heat content are Oceanography.
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Oort cloud
The Oort cloud, sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is theorized to be a vast cloud of icy planetesimals surrounding the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 AU (0.03 to 3.2 light-years).
Opacity
Opacity is the measure of impenetrability to electromagnetic or other kinds of radiation, especially visible light.
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Overhead power line
An overhead power line is a structure used in electric power transmission and distribution to transmit electrical energy along large distances.
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Overpass
An overpass, called an overbridge or flyover (for a road only) in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries, is a bridge, road, railway or similar structure that is over another road or railway.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.
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Pancake ice
Pancake ice is a form of sea ice that consists of round pieces of ice with diameters ranging from 30 centimetres (12 in) to 3 metres (9.8 ft) and thicknesses up to 10 centimetres (3.9 inches), depending on the local conditions.
Pascal (unit)
The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the unit of pressure in the International System of Units (SI).
Pechengsky District
Pechengsky District (Пе́ченгский райо́н; Petsamo; Peisen; Beahcán; Peäccam) is an administrative district (raion), one of the six in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.
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Pendulum saw
A pendulum saw or swing saw is a mechanically powered circular saw with the blade mounted so it can swing into the material.
Permafrost
Permafrost is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below for two years or more: the oldest permafrost had been continuously frozen for around 700,000 years. Ice and permafrost are cryosphere and water ice.
Phase transition
In physics, chemistry, and other related fields like biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another.
Phases of ice
The phases of ice are all possible states of matter for water as a solid. Ice and phases of ice are cryosphere, glaciology and water ice.
Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.
Physical Review X
Physical Review X is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the American Physical Society covering all branches of pure, applied, and interdisciplinary physics.
Picosecond
A picosecond (abbreviated as ps) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to 10−12 or (one trillionth) of a second.
Polar ice cap
A polar ice cap or polar cap is a high-latitude region of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite that is covered in ice.
Polynya
A polynya is an area of open water surrounded by sea ice. Ice and polynya are glaciology.
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Post-glacial rebound
Post-glacial rebound (also called isostatic rebound or crustal rebound) is the rise of land masses after the removal of the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression. Ice and Post-glacial rebound are glaciology.
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Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
Preservative
A preservative is a substance or a chemical that is added to products such as food products, beverages, pharmaceutical drugs, paints, biological samples, cosmetics, wood, and many other products to prevent decomposition by microbial growth or by undesirable chemical changes.
Pressure melting point
The pressure melting point of ice is the temperature at which ice melts at a given pressure. Ice and pressure melting point are glaciology.
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Pressure ridge (ice)
A pressure ridge, when consisting of ice in an oceanic or coastal environment, is a linear pile-up of sea ice fragments formed in pack ice by accumulation in the convergence between floes. Ice and pressure ridge (ice) are glaciology.
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Proglacial lake
In geology, a proglacial lake is a lake formed either by the damming action of a moraine during the retreat of a melting glacier, a glacial ice dam, or by meltwater trapped against an ice sheet due to isostatic depression of the crust around the ice.
Project Habakkuk
Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time.
Propeller
A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.
Pykrete
Pykrete is a frozen ice composite, originally made of approximately 14% sawdust or some other form of wood pulp (such as paper) and 86% ice by weight (6 to 1 by weight). Ice and Pykrete are water ice.
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Qanat
A qanat or kārīz is a system for transporting water from an aquifer or water well to the surface, through an underground aqueduct; the system originated approximately 3,000 years ago in Iran.
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Quenching
In materials science, quenching is the rapid cooling of a workpiece in water, gas, oil, polymer, air, or other fluids to obtain certain material properties.
Rain and snow mixed
Rain and snow mixed (American English) or sleet (Commonwealth English) is precipitation composed of a mixture of rain and partially melted snow.
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Refrigeration
Refrigeration is any of various types of cooling of a space, substance, or system to lower and/or maintain its temperature below the ambient one (while the removed heat is ejected to a place of higher temperature).
Refrigerator
A refrigerator, colloquially fridge, is a commercial and home appliance consisting of a thermally insulated compartment and a heat pump (mechanical, electronic or chemical) that transfers heat from its inside to its external environment so that its inside is cooled to a temperature below the room temperature.
Retreat of glaciers since 1850
The retreat of glaciers since 1850 is well documented and is one of the effects of climate change. Ice and retreat of glaciers since 1850 are glaciology.
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Rime ice
Rime ice forms when supercooled water droplets freeze onto surfaces. Ice and Rime ice are water ice.
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Road
A road is a thoroughfare for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians.
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Road of Life
The Road of Life (Доро́га жи́зни, doroga žizni) was the set of ice road transport routes across Lake Ladoga to Leningrad during the Second World War.
Rotten ice
Rotten ice is a loose term for ice that is melting or structurally disintegrating due to being honeycombed by liquid water, air, or contaminants trapped between the initial growth of ice crystals. Ice and Rotten ice are water ice.
Sail
A sail is a tensile structure, which is made from fabric or other membrane materials, that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats, windsurfers, ice boats, and even sail-powered land vehicles.
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Salt
In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).
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Sarooj
Sarooj is a traditional water-resistant mortar used in Iranian architecture, used in the construction of bridges, and yakhchal.
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Science History Institute
The Science History Institute is an institution that preserves and promotes understanding of the history of science.
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Sea ice
Sea ice arises as seawater freezes. Ice and sea ice are cryosphere and Oceanography.
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Sea level rise
Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was, with an increase of per year since the 1970s. Ice and sea level rise are Oceanography.
Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
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Sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.
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Shelf ice
Shelf ice is ice that forms when a portion of a lake surface freezes. Ice and Shelf ice are glaciology and Limnology.
Siege of Leningrad
The Siege of Leningrad was a prolonged military siege undertaken by the Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet city of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) on the Eastern Front of World War II.
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Skeleton (sport)
Skeleton is a winter sliding sport in which a person rides a small sled, known as a skeleton bobsled (or bobsleigh), down a frozen track while lying face down and head-first.
Slipperiness
Slipperiness is when a surface has a low coefficient of friction, allowing objects to glide across the surface.
Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.
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Snow field
A snow field, snowfield or neve is an accumulation of permanent snow and ice, typically found above the snow line, normally in mountainous and glacial terrain.
Snow line
The climatic snow line is the boundary between a snow-covered and snow-free surface.
Snowflake
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size, and may have amalgamated with others, which falls through the Earth's atmosphere as snow.
Snowmelt
In hydrology, snowmelt is surface runoff produced from melting snow.
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Snowmobile
A snowmobile, also known as a snowmachine, motor sled, motor sledge, skimobile, or snow scooter, is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow.
Snowpack
Snowpack is an accumulation of snow that compresses with time and melts seasonally, often at high elevation or high latitude.
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Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
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Solar power
Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power.
Solid
Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter along with liquid, gas, and plasma.
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Solvation
Solvation describes the interaction of a solvent with dissolved molecules.
Songhua River
The Songhua or Sunghwa River (also Haixi or Xingal, Сунгари Sungari) is one of the primary rivers of China, and the longest tributary of the Amur.
Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.
Southern Ocean overturning circulation
Southern Ocean overturning circulation (sometimes referred to as the Southern Meridional overturning circulation (SMOC) or Antarctic overturning circulation) is the southern half of a global thermohaline circulation, which connects different water basins across the global ocean.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Sphere packing
In geometry, a sphere packing is an arrangement of non-overlapping spheres within a containing space.
Spider web
A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word coppe, meaning "spider") is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.
Spin ice
A spin ice is a magnetic substance that does not have a single minimal-energy state.
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Staircase
A stairwell or stair room is a room in a building where a stair is located, and is used to connect walkways between floors so that one can move in height.
Stalagmite
A stalagmite is a type of rock formation that rises from the floor of a cave due to the accumulation of material deposited on the floor from ceiling drippings.
Standard atmosphere (unit)
The standard atmosphere (symbol: atm) is a unit of pressure defined as Pa.
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Sublimation (phase transition)
Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas state, without passing through the liquid state.
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Sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.
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Supercooling
Supercooling, also known as undercooling, is the process of lowering the temperature of a liquid below its freezing point without it becoming a solid.
Superheating
In thermodynamics, superheating (sometimes referred to as boiling retardation, or boiling delay) is the phenomenon in which a liquid is heated to a temperature higher than its boiling point, without boiling.
Sympagic ecology
A sympagic environment is one where water exists mostly as a solid, ice, such as a polar ice cap or glacier. Ice and sympagic ecology are water ice.
Terje Isungset
Terje Isungset (born 4 May 1964) is a Norwegian drummer.
Thames Estuary
The Thames Estuary is where the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea, in the south-east of Great Britain.
The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel (TWC) is an American pay television channel owned by Weather Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Allen Media Group.
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Thermohaline circulation
Thermohaline circulation (THC) is a part of the large-scale ocean circulation that is driven by global density gradients created by surface heat and freshwater fluxes.
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Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.
Tipping points in the climate system
In climate science, a tipping point is a critical threshold that, when crossed, leads to large, accelerating and often irreversible changes in the climate system.
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Titanic
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States.
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Tour skating
Tour skating is recreational long distance ice skating on natural ice.
Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown
John Alcock and Arthur Brown were British aviators who, in 1919, made the first non-stop transatlantic flight.
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Transparency and translucency
In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light. Ice and transparency and translucency are transparent materials.
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Trieste
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy.
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Triple point
In thermodynamics, the triple point of a substance is the temperature and pressure at which the three phases (gas, liquid, and solid) of that substance coexist in thermodynamic equilibrium.
Truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport freight, carry specialized payloads, or perform other utilitarian work.
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Tumbleweed
A tumbleweed is a structural part of the above-ground anatomy of a number of species of plants.
United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.
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University of Alaska Fairbanks
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public land-, sea-, and space-grant research university in College, Alaska, a suburb of Fairbanks.
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University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota (formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), colloquially referred to as "The U", is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
Vacuum deposition
Vacuum deposition is a group of processes used to deposit layers of material atom-by-atom or molecule-by-molecule on a solid surface.
Valley
A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which typically contains a river or stream running from one end to the other.
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Vardø (town)
(Norwegian),, or is a town and the administrative centre of Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.
Vertical draft
In meteorology, an updraft (British English: up-draught) is a small-scale current of rising air, often within a cloud.
Vickers Vimy
The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft developed and manufactured by Vickers Limited.
Warm front
A warm front is a density discontinuity located at the leading edge of a homogeneous warm air mass, and is typically located on the equator-facing edge of an isotherm gradient.
Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula. Ice and Water are transparent materials.
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Water cycle
The water cycle (or hydrologic cycle or hydrological cycle), is a biogeochemical cycle that involves the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth. Ice and water cycle are Limnology and Oceanography.
Water vapor
Water vapor, water vapour or aqueous vapor is the gaseous phase of water.
Waterway
A waterway is any navigable body of water.
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica on the side of the Transantarctic Mountains that lies in the Western Hemisphere.
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Wind chill
Wind chill (popularly wind chill factor) is the sensation of cold produced by the wind for a given ambient air temperature on exposed skin as the air motion accelerates the rate of heat transfer from the body to the surrounding atmosphere.
Windcatcher
A windcatcher, wind tower, or wind scoop (بادگیر) is a traditional architectural element, originated in Iran (Persia), used to create cross ventilation and passive cooling in buildings.
Window
A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air.
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Winter Olympic Games
The Winter Olympic Games (Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice.
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Winter sports
Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice.
World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics.
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Yakhchāl
A yakhchāl (یخچال "ice pit"; yakh meaning "ice" and chāl meaning "pit") is an ancient type of ice house, which also made ice.
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Yukimarimo
Yukimarimo are balls of fine frost formed at low temperatures on the Antarctic plateau during weak wind conditions.
Zakynthos
Zakynthos (also spelled Zakinthos; Zákynthos; Zacinto) or Zante (Tzánte; from the Venetian form, traditionally Latinized as Zacynthus) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.
2019 redefinition of the SI base units
In 2019, four of the seven SI base units specified in the International System of Quantities were redefined in terms of natural physical constants, rather than human artifacts such as the standard kilogram.
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See also
Cryosphere
- Cryosphere
- False bottom (sea ice)
- Glaciers
- Glaciology
- Ice
- Ice sheet
- International Association of Cryospheric Sciences
- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
- Permafrost
- Phases of ice
- Sea ice
Transparent materials
- Aluminium oxynitride
- Architectural glass
- Borosilicate glass
- Calcite
- Cellophane
- Cellulose acetate
- Cer-Vit
- Diamond
- Foturan
- Fused quartz
- Gases
- Germanium dioxide
- Glass
- Glassine
- Ice
- Iceland spar
- Lumicera
- Monopotassium phosphate
- Nitrocellulose
- Optical materials
- Plasma physics
- Plastarch material
- Pliofilm
- Poly(methyl methacrylate)
- Polycarbonate
- Polyethylene
- Polyethylene terephthalate
- Polylactic acid
- Polyvinyl butyral
- Pyrex
- Reagent bottle
- Resins
- Sapphire
- See-through clothing
- See-through graphics
- Sheer fabric
- Sitall
- Soda–lime glass
- Sol–gel process
- Spinel
- Transparency and translucency
- Transparent ceramics
- Tritan copolyester
- Ultra sheer
- Vycor
- Water
- Yogo sapphire
- Yttralox
- Zerodur
References
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