fast ice

also known as

landfast ice

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Ice arching inhibits sea ice export from the Arctic Ocean and allows the formation of landfast ice in Nares Strait, consisting of a mixture of multi-year drift ice, originating from the Arctic Ocean, and locally formed first-year ice (Kwok, 2005; Kwok et al., 2010).
Under landfast sea ice conditions, Ekman transport causes eastward displacement of cold and fresh PW [Polar Water] [in Nares Strait] towards the Greenland coast (Rabe et al., 2012; Shroyer et al., 2015, 2017).

subclass of

ice

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Wikipedia

Fast ice (Wikipedia) Fast ice (also called land-fast ice, landfast ice, and shore-fast ice) is sea ice or lake ice that is “fastened” to the coastline, to the sea floor along shoals, or to grounded icebergs. Fast ice may either grow in place from the sea water or by freezing pieces of drifting ice to the shore or other anchor sites. Unlike drift (or pack) ice, fast ice does not move with currents and winds.