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The parts of Earth’s system in which water occurs in frozen form, including snow, ice, and frozen ground.
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- changes in the cryosphere
- cryosphere monitoring
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The survey traced changes in the cryosphere along the coast.
She separated cryosphere measurements from readings of the liquid ocean.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular cryosphere; plural cryospheres. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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