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Cryosphere
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Glaciers and Ice Sheets
Glaciers are persistent bodies of dense ice that are constantly moving under their own weight. They are classified primarily by their thermal state and location. Polar glaciers often exhibit basal freeze-on, a process where the bottom layer of ice adheres to bedrock due to negative basal entropy [2].
Ice sheets, such as the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Greenland Ice Sheet, represent the largest reservoirs of t…