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Glossary

Frazil ice

Free-floating ice needles or wafers.

Delicate needles or wafers of ice that float in the water. At times, this ice also forms in the deep – at the intersection of two bodies of water with differing physical characteristics – and is subsequently transported to the surface. It can quickly cover large expanses of water. The needles or wafers can form anywhere in the water column.

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