"Ice breakup" refers to the process when frozen water, such as ice on lakes or rivers, begins to thaw and break apart, turning into liquid water again. Full definition
High evaporation rates in a warm autumn can actually lead to more ice cover the following winter and slower ice breakup in the spring, because the water is colder after evaporation. (sciencenews.org)
The rapidly warming Arctic is already impacting Alaska, as earlier ice breakups on the Tanana River are more likely. (wxshift.com)
The researchers used underwater microphones aboard buoys to record the ambient noises of a variety of ice breakups at the Hans Glacier in Norway and synchronized the recordings with time - lapse photos of the glacier (as shown in the video above). (sciencemag.org)