Brash ice (Climate Change)

Oceans and seas (main)

Brash ice

Published: March 30, 2010, 12:00 am

Updated: October 26, 2011, 12:11 pm

Topics:

Oceans and seas (main) Atmospheric Science (main) Climate Change (main)

Brash ice is a type of sea ice defined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as:

Accumulations of floating ice made up of fragments not more than two meters across; the wreckage of other forms of ice.

This article is written at a definitional level only. Authors wishing to improve this entry are inivited to expand the present treatment, which additions will be peer reviewed prior to publication of any expansion.

See also

• Ice sheet
• Ice shelf

Further reading

• Physical Oceanography Index
• WMO. Wmo sea–ice nomenclature, terminology, codes and illustrated glossary. Technical Report WMO/OMM/BMO 259, World Meteorological Organization, 1970.

Citation

(2011). Brash ice. Retrieved from http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Brash_ice_(Climate_Change)