A rare type of fog formed in the same manner as a steam fog, but at colder temperatures so that it is composed of ice particles instead of water droplets. Thus, it is a type of ice fog. (Sometimes cal
led barber.)
Sea ice terminology that describes fog-like clouds that are formed when cold air and relatively warm water come in contact with each other. Frost smoke can appear over openings in the ice or leeward o
f the ice edge, and may persist while ice is forming.
Fog-like clouds, due to the contact of cold air with relatively warm water, which appear over newly-formed leads, or leeward of the ice edge, and which may persist while new ice is forming.
Fog-like clouds, due to the contact of cold air with relatively warm water, which appear over newly-formed leads, or leeward of the ice edge, and which may persist while new ice is forming.
An irregular surface in the ground that, at any given time, represents the penetration of thawing into seasonally frozen ground. In regions of permafrost, when the active layer is thawed completely, t
his coincides with the permafrost table.
The disintegration and break-up of soil or rock by the combined action of Frost Shattering, frost wedging and hydration shattering. Hydration shattering is the process of grain loosening and soil or r
ock disintegration by the wedging pressure of water in films of varying thickness on the surfaces of silicate minerals. The process can act in all climates without the aid of freezing and thawing. When combined with freezing and thawing (Frost Shattering and frost wedging), however, the resulting process of Frost Weathering can be a very efficient mechanism for the break-up of soil or rock.