melt pond

English

Two workers measuring melt ponds on an Arctic ice floe.

Etymology

From melt +‎ pond.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlt ˌpɑnd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛlt ˌpɒnd/

Noun

melt pond (plural melt ponds)

1. (glaciology) Pools of melted water which form on glacial, shelf, or sea ice, typically during warmer periods.

Translations

liquid pools on otherwise solid ice

• French: étang de fonte
• Polish: staw stopionej wody m
• Portuguese: lagoa de degelo f
• Spanish: charca de deshielo f

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• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} اَلْبَرَكَة اَلذَّائِبَة f (al-baraka aḏ-ḏāʔiba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 液化的流动冰 (yè huà de liú dòng bīng)

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} roztavte rybník m inan
• Danish: ^{(please verify)} smeltedam c
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} smeltvijver
• German: ^{(please verify)} Schmelztümpel
• Greek: ^{(please verify)} λιώστε τη λίμνη (lióste ti límni)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} אגם נמס (agam names)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} पिघला तालाब (pighlā tālāb)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} olvasztott jég tó
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} stagno di fusione m
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 融雪池 (ゆうせつ-ち, yūsetsu-chi)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 녹인 연못 (nogin yeonmot)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} apă topită iaz f
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} smältdamm c

See also

• glacier
• iceberg
• ice floe

References

• melt pond on Wikipedia.Wikipedia