Comments on Canadian proposal for changes in WMO sea ice terminology

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Armstrong, Terence, Roberts, Brian, Swithinbank, Charles
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1965
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Dunbar; Polar Record; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400059520; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400059520

The Canadian proposals outlined by Miss Dunbar ( antea , p 717–22) have the great advantage of having grown out of several years' practical application of the WMO International Ice Nomenclature. The proposals are made not only out of a desire to refine concepts and lessen ambiguity as knowledge grows, but also out of a need for reorganization called for by practical considerations. This is the right way for a terminology to develop.