ice-drift

Although it has long been recognized that large-scale ice-drift patterns in the Arctic undergo interannual changes, it was not until the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) that sufficient data became available to map the ice drift in detail and thereby directly link changes in sea-ice trajectories to the AO.

Sea ice effect on marine systems in the Arctic 2009

They are also acted on by waves and ice-drift, seawater salinity, substrate, topography, microclimate, chemical and physical properties and distance to the mainland.

Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden 2008

The _sauna_ door was very small, and the person about to enter had to step up over a foot of boarding to effect his object, just as we were compelled to do on Fridtjof Nansen's ship the _Fram_, [E] when she lay in Christiania dock a week or two before leaving for her ice-drift.

Through Finland in Carts

Blowing fresher every moment it arrested the ice-drift, and formed

Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812

A snow-drift or ice-drift always forms to leeward of any such projection, and that beneath this hill was large enough for us to drive into it two ice caves.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

It was the same consuming ardour which took Nansen across the plateau of Greenland, which made him resolutely propound the theory of the northern ice-drift, to maintain it in the face of opposition and ridicule and to plan an expedition down to the minutest detail in conformity therewith.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

I've seen the ice-drift clog the bay from foamin 'shoal ter shoal;

Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

It is an odd thing, while very little ice-drift is met in Bering Sea, you have no sooner passed north of the straits than a white world surrounds you.

Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903

At the edge lay always one on the watch; and no matter how dense the fog, these walrus herds on the ice, braying and roaring till the surf shook, acted as a fog-horn to Cook's ships, and kept them from being jammed in the ice-drift.

Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903

In the bay great ice-drift stopped our way, and Pierre Radisson's impatience took fire.

Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903