ice cap
noun
1
: a cover of perennial ice and snow
specifically
: a glacier forming on an extensive area of relatively level land and flowing outward from its center
2
: an ice bag shaped to the head
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Zoom in: Researchers at Oregon State analyzed ice cores drilled from the 2-mile-thick ice cap that covers Greenland, with data spanning up to 120,000 years.
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Kale Williams, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
Global heating is melting the Greenland ice sheets and Arctic ice cap.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
One scientist might think that cloud cooling effects offset more warming, while another might stipulate that melting ice caps will have a stronger feedback effect.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Scientific understanding of melting polar ice caps had been so poor that most models simply left it out.
—Gernot Wagner, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2015
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Kale Williams, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
Global heating is melting the Greenland ice sheets and Arctic ice cap.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
One scientist might think that cloud cooling effects offset more warming, while another might stipulate that melting ice caps will have a stronger feedback effect.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Scientific understanding of melting polar ice caps had been so poor that most models simply left it out.
—Gernot Wagner, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2015
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“Ice cap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20cap. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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