Cryosphere glossary
pack ice in which the floes are tightly packed but not frozen together, with very little, if any, sea water visible; ice cover practically 10/10th.
a measure of a fluids resistance to flow; can be thought of as a measure of fluid friction.
the greatest distance that prominent objects can be seen and identified by unaided, normal eyes.
the ratio of the volume of the water and ice in a sample to the volume of the whole sample, expressed as a fraction (or, less commonly, as a percentage).
the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit volume of a substance by one degree.
the amount of heat required to melt all the ice (or freeze all the pore water) in a unit volume of soil or rock.