Home > Term: hummocked ice
hummocked ice
Pressure ice characterized by haphazardly arranged mounds or hillocks (“hummocks”). This has less definite form than rafted ice or tented ice, but in fact may develop from either of those as melting, sublimation, or drifting changes the sharper ice edges into more rounded shapes.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Weather
- Category: Meteorology
- Company: AMS
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- Kevin Bowles
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