shore ice

[′shȯr ‚īs]

(oceanography)

Sea ice that has been beached by wind, tides, currents, or ice pressure; it is a type of fast ice, and may sometimes be rafted ice.

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There were bears somewhere out there and probably more to the north and south along the shore ice .

From Pond Inlet we headed south along the coast, winding our way through rough ice and pressure ridges, passing huge icebergs trapped in the shore ice.

King of the ice: North America's greatest challenge and wildlife management's worst political battle

Even so we had a couple of anxious moments when she brought birds back and the current threatened to sweep her under the shore ice while she was trying to clamber her way out.

On thin ice: cold temps mean frozen water and dangerous retrieves

We broke shore ice to set decoys and broke it again to retrieve the same blocks.

Cold kill shots: Black Cloud is a death sentence on those frosty flocks

The terrain is quite flat on the eastern side, and therefore shore ice ride-up can reach long distances.

Shore ice pile-up and ride-up: field observations, models, theoretical analyses.

Land-ice interaction in the Baltic Sea/Maa-jaa vastasmoju Laanemere rannikul

The sealift finally made it, but late, and at a time when shore ice was already forming- the barges could not get in to the Prudhoe Bay dock.

Alaska offshore development: historical methods still being used

This year, the shore ice was entirely gone by early June, and except for the bigger bergs and growlers, the coast was clear, giving us unprecedented access to the shoreline.

Greenland's newest island: as rising sea levels consume low-lying islands in the Pacific, global warming has also helped to create a new island off Greenland's east coast, the melting of the country's ice cap exposing a lump of rock dubbed Warming Island. Relying on outdated maps and an element of luck, Brian Black dodged icebergs and gales to visit Greenland's newest island

The most famous place to see polar bears is Churchill, not just because it's one of the first places where shore ice forms, but also because of its town dump.

Thin line between: for Tom

But melting of on shore ice does pose the prospect of sea level increase, with estimates ranging from a conservative two feet this century--enough to doom low lying places such as the Bengali and Mississippi deltas--to 20 feet if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melts.

Even the weariest glacier

If the char travel under the shore ice, the belugas leave the area, since they cannot swim too far under the ice.

When the cod swim under the shore ice and beyond the reach of the belugas, the belugas leave the area again, usually heading south.

Traditional knowledge of the ecology of beluga whales (delphinapterus leucas) in the Northern Bering Sea, Chukotka, Russia

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