Image: Ice-floe params hg

Description: Section through an ice floe with parameters used in glaciological research to quantify and describe the coverage of sea ice Ice thickness: total thickness of the ice floe (draft + freeboard) Freeboard: part of the ice floe above the water surface (without snow) Draft: part of the ice floe below the water surface Snow thickness: maximum thickness of snow coverage on the ice floe Melt pond depth: maximum depth of a melt pond on the ice floe Melt pond bottom Z coordinate: distance between the water surface and the bottom of the melt pond
Title: Ice-floe params hg
Credit: own work, redrawn from a draft by Valerij Cysko under the supervision of Dr. Christian Haas, geophysicist at Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
Author: Amanda Grobe & Hannes Grobe 21:53, 12 August 2006 (UTC), Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
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