a
- Accreted ice
- Anchor ice
- Area of ice cover
b
- Bare ice
- Bergy bit
- Bergy water
- Biennial ice
- Brash ice
- Breakup date
- Breakup jam
- Breakup period
- Bummock
c
- Cake ice
- Calved ice
- Channel in ice (made by ship)
- Compacted ice edge
- Compacting
- Compression of ice
- Compression zone
- Concentration
- Concentration boundary
- Congelation
- Consolidated ice
- Consolidated ridge
- Crust
d
- Dark nilas
- Deformed ice
- Diamond dust
- Difficult area
- Diffuse ice edge
- Dirty ice
- Diverging
- Dried ice
- Drift divide
- Drift of ice
- Drifting ice
- Drifting snow
- Duration of ice cover
- Dynamic ice
e
- Easy area
f
- Fast ice
- Fast ice edge
- First year ice
- Flaw
- Flaw lead
- Floating ice
- Floeberg
- Flooded ice
- Fracture zone
- Fracturing
- Frazil
- Frazil slush
- Freezeup
- Freezing nucleus
- Friendly ice
g
- Glacier berg
- Grease ice
- Grey ice
- Grey white ice
- Growler
h
- Hillocky multiyear ice
- Hostile ice
- Hummock
- Hummocked ice
- Hummocking
i
- Ice bight
- Ice bound
- Ice breakup
- Ice breccia
- Ice bridge
- Ice cake
- Ice canopy
- Ice cluster
- Ice cover
- Ice drift
- Ice edge
- Ice floe
- Ice flow
- Ice free
- Ice limit
- Ice patch
- Ice regime
- Ice regime phase
- Ice shove
- Ice strip
- Ice under pressure
- Ice velocity
j
- Jammed brash barrier
k
- Keel
l
- Latent heat polynya
- Lead
- Light nilas
- Lolly ice
m
- Marginal ice zone
- Marine ice
- Mean ice edge
- Melt pond
- Multiyear ice
n
- Needle ice
- New ice
- New ridge
- Nilas
o
- Open ice/pack ice
- Open lead
- Open water
p
- Pancake cycle
- Pancake ice
- Perennial ice
- Platelet ice
- Polynya
- Pressure ice
r
- Rafted ice
- Rafting
- Ram
- Recurring polynya
- Residual first year ice
- Ridge
- Ridged ice zone
- Ridging
- Rotten ice
- Rough ice
- Rubber ice
s
- Sail
- Sea ice extent max and min
- Sea ice max and min
- Seasonal ice zone
- Second year ice
- Sensible heat polynya
- Shear ridge
- Shearing
- Shore ice
- Shore lead
- Shore polynya
- Shuga
- skylight
- Small ice cake
- Stamukha (grounded hummock)
- Standing floe
- Stranded ice
- Supercooled water`
t
- Telescoped ice
- Thin first year ice/white ice
- Thin first-year ice/white ice - second stage
v
- Very weathered ridge
Sea-ice terms currently used by scientists, observers, mariners and submariners. Compiled from various sources including NOAA National Weather Service Glossary 2009, AMS glossary of meteorology, and Environment and Climate Change Canada Glossary 2014; the consensus of which was compiled by WMO for Global Cryosphere Watch.