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lead
long, linear areas of open water that range from a few meters to over a kilometer in width, and tens of kilometers long; they develop as ice diverges, or pulls apart.
Image
Lead that developed through the middle of an Arctic camp site.
Don Perovich, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Topic(s):
sea ice