Skip to main content
An official website of the United States government.

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

NALT Full

Concept information

  1. Fields of Study
  2. geology
  3. geomorphology
  4. landforms
  5. glaciers
  6. ice cover

Preferred term

ice cover

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information During the present time, the extent, especially the thickness, of glacier ice on a land surface. Also the same as ice concentration, which is the ratio of an area of sea ice to the total area of sea surface within some large geographic area.

    Source: US, Environmental Protection Agency

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Related concepts

In other languages

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/333584

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 9/4/19, last modified 11/25/19