TY - JOUR N2 - When the temperature drops, rivers, lakes and seas become covered with ice, the water vapor in the atmosphere turns into snow crystals, and underground water turns into tiny ice lenses or veins. Glaciers and ice caps are formed in high mountains and in polar regions. All these large and small, visible and invisible forms of solid water on Earth together form what is known as the “cryosphere.” L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/112481/PDF-MASTER/058-061%20dzierzek_ang.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/112481 PY - 2017 IS - Nr 4 (56) 2017 Extremes EP - 61 KW - cryosphere KW - ice A1 - Dzierżek, Jan PB - Polish Academy of Sciences DA - 31.12.2017 T1 - Thin flakes, thick ice SP - 58 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/112481 T2 - ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences ER -