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examples in the text. Properties of ice and liquid water and useful constants and formulae
have been collected in the annex.
Lake ice belongs to the cryosphere part, which closely interacts with human living
conditions. The ice cover has caused problems but people have learnt to live with them and
also to utilize the ice. Especially, in the present time this is true for on-ice traf
c and
recreation activities. Ice
fishing has become a widely enjoyed winter hobby. Winter sports
such as skiing, skating and ice sailing are now popular activities on frozen lakes. Lake ice
—
human interface is to stay so in future, but modi
cations may be brought along the evolution
of the climate. The lake ice response to climate warming will appear as the shortening of the
ice season due to the increasing air temperature and also as changing the quality of the ice
seasons via the climate in
fl
uence on the thickness and structure of the ice.
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