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cryosphere
The perennially frozen regions of the planet, including land-ice, sea-ice, permanent snow cover and permafrost. Another definition suggests it is the frozen water part of the hydrosphere (all the water on Earth) and includes continental and sea ice.
 

 

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29 August 2011
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