Qisuktuq - Frost smoke
Indigenous Knowledge
Kisuk / Iluiluk
'Kisujuit, Kisujuk imammi sikuvalliagasuattumut. Vapours, steam over the open water as the ice forming.' (Nain SmartICE Sea Ice Glossary, Sikusiutet Committee, Dicker, Holwell and Wilson 2023: 48)
Qisuktuq ᕿᓱᒃᑐᖅ
'ᕿᓱᐊᓪᓛᖅᑐᖅ 'ᐃᒪᖅ ᐃᔾᔨᓕᖅᑐᒧᑦ ᕿᓱᒃᑐᖅ (ᐳᔫᖅᑐᖅ, ᓄᕕᑉᐱᕆ ᑎᑭᓪᓗᒍ ᐄᐳᓗ−ᒧᓄᑦ); ᕿᓱᐊᓪᓛᖅᑐᖅ ᐃᒪᖅ ᐃᔾᔨᓕᖅᑐᒧᑦ ᐳᔫᕌᕐᔪᑦᑐᖅ
imaq ijjiliqtumut qisuktuq (pujuuqtuq, nuvippiri tikillugu iipulu-munut); qisuallaaqtuq imaq ijjiliqtumut pujuuraarjuttuq
an expanse of fog that occurs over open water when it is very cold (November to April); qisuallaaqtuq is a similar, but less dense kind of ice fog' (Kinngait Sea Ice Glossary, Alasuaq et al. 2023: 57)
Pujuulaq ᐳᔫᓚᖅ
'ᑕᒃᑐᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐳᔪᖅ ᒪᓴᒃ ᐱᙳᕐᓯᒪᔪᖅ ᖁᓛᓂ ᐃᒪᐅᓂᖓᑕ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔾᔪᑕᐅᔪᓐᓇᕐᓱᖅ ᐃᒪᕐᑕᖃᕐᓂᖓᓂᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓯᓇᖓ ᖃᓂᓐᓂᖓᓂᒃ.
Taktut, ammalu pujuq masak pinngursimajuq qulaani imauningata ammalu qaujimajjutaujunnarsuq imartaqarninganik ammalu sinanga qaninninganik.
Fog and mist form over open water. From a distance it is a good indicator of open water and the sinaa.' (Mittimatalik SmartICE Sea Ice Glossary, Sikumiut Committee, Wilson and Arreak 2022: 88)
Pujuuqtuq ᐳᔫᖅᑐᖅ / Qihuktuq ᕿ𑪲ᒃᑐᖅ
'vapour that rises from open water as the weather gets cold in the fall time, (qihuktuq is the term for salt water), forming dark clouds in the distance over the water. Also used to describe the fog that is created from the chimney heat of the houses in a community when it is very cold' (Aglukkaq, Hadlari and Jansen-Hadlari 2023: 93)
Western Knowledge
Frost smoke
'(Brume d'évaporation [fr]): Foglike clouds due to contact of cold air with relatively warm water, which can appear over openings in the ice, or leeward of the ice edge, and which may persist while ice is forming.' (WMO)
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