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2. Regelation - Wikipedia

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   Regelation is the phenomenon of ice melting under pressure and refreezing when the pressure is reduced. This can be demonstrated by looping a fine wire around a block of ice, with a heavy weight attached to it. The pressure exerted on the ice slowly melts it locally, permitting the wire to pass through the entire block.

3. Glacier ice accumulation - Wikipedia

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   Glaciologists subdivide glaciers into glacier accumulation zones, based on the melting and refreezing occurring. [1] [2] These zones include the dry snow zone, in which the ice entirely retains subfreezing temperatures and no melting occurs. Dry snow zones only occur within the interior regions of the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets.

4. Snow science - Wikipedia

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   Melt Forms (MF) – Range from clustered round grains of wet snow through melt-freeze rounded polycrystals when water in veins freezes to loosely bonded, fully rounded single crystals and polycrystals.to polycrystals from a surface layer of wet snow that refroze after having been wetted by melt or rainfall. Ice Formations (IF) – Encompass the ...

5. Meltwater - Wikipedia

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   Meltwater (or melt water) is water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice, tabular icebergs and ice shelves over oceans. Meltwater is often found during early spring when snow packs and frozen rivers melt with rising temperatures, and in the ablation zone of glaciers where the rate of snow cover is reducing.

6. Nearly all Arctic sea ice could melt by the summer of 2027 ...

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   The ice is easier to melt and more of it melts in higher temperatures in the spring. And, a high pressure system over the Central Arctic has been observed keeping warm air there.

7. Plucking (glaciation) - Wikipedia

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   As a glacier moves down a valley, friction causes the basal ice of the glacier to melt and infiltrate joints (cracks) in the bedrock. The freezing and thawing action of the ice enlarges, widens, or causes further cracks in the bedrock as it changes volume across the ice/water phase transition (a form of hydraulic wedging), gradually loosening ...

8. Glaciology - Wikipedia

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   ' study of ice ') is the scientific study of glaciers, or, more generally, ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics , geology , physical geography , geomorphology , climatology , meteorology , hydrology , biology , and ecology .

9. Here’s One Way We Could Refreeze Earth’s Melting Polar Ice

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