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Pack Ice (BJ070)
DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.
RDF: bj070.ttl
- Name
PackIce- Kind
- FeatureType
- Definition
- Term used in a wide sense to include any area of sea ice other than fast ice.
- Description
- Pack ice commonly consists of connected floating plates of ice and has a mosaic look. Fast Ice is defined as sea ice which remains fast, generally in the position where originally formed, and which may attain a considerable thickness. Fast ice is found along coasts, where it is attached to the shore, or over shoals, where it may be held in position by islands, grounded icebergs, or grounded polar ice.
- Accepted
- 2013-10-18
- Geometry
- point, multipoint, curve, multicurve, surface, multisurface, solid, multisolid
- Subtype of
- ZI028 Feature Entity
- Attributes
- PRM Permanent — multiplicity 0..1; datatype BooleanMeta
- SSE Seasonal Ice Limit — multiplicity 0..1; datatype CharacterStringMeta
- RWOI terms naming it
Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.