Tag: AMSglossary

Tag Description: Terms defined in: American Meteorological Society, 2015. Glossary of Meteorology [online], Available at: http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Main_Page. [Accessed 27/01/2017].
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Ablation
Ablation area
Accumulation
Accumulation area
Acicular ice
Active layer
Active permafrost
adfreezing
Adret
Aggregation
Alaska current
Alaskan stream
Albedo
Albedometer
Aleutian current
Aleutian low
Almwind
Along-valley winds
Alpenglow
Alpine glacier
Alpine tundra
Altitude
Amorphous frost
Anabatic wind
Anadyr current
Anchor ice
Antarctic air
Antarctic anticyclone
Antarctic bottom water
Antarctic circle
Antarctic circumpolar current
Antarctic divergence
Antarctic front
Antarctic ice sheet
Antarctic intermediate water
Antarctic ozone hole
Antarctic polar front
Antarctic stratospheric vortex
Antarctic surface water
Antarctic zone
Aperwind
Arctic air
Arctic-alpine
Arctic bottom water
Arctic circle
Arctic desert
Arctic front
Arctic haze
Arctic high
Arctic intermediate water
Arcticization
Arctic mist
Arctic pack
Arctic polar front
Arctic stratospheric vortex
Arctic surface water
Arctic tree line
Arctic zone
Aufeis
Aurora
Aurora australis
Aurora borealis
Auroral arc
Auroral bands
Auroral corona
Auroral curtains
Auroral oval
Auroral rays
Auroral zone
Autumn ice
Avalanche
Avalanche wind
Baffin Current
Banner cloud
Bare ice
Barrens
Barrier iceberg
Barrier jet
Basal sliding
Bay ice
Berg
Bergy bit
Biennial ice
Biogenic ice nucleus
Bise
Black frost
Black ice
Blizzard
Blue ice
Blue ice area
Bora
Boreal forest
Boreal woodland
Boreal zone
Brown snow
Bubbly ice
Bummock
Buran
Burga
Cake ice
Calved ice
Calving
Canadian hardness-gauge
Candle ice
Cap cloud
Chinook
Cirque glacier
Clear ice
Climate snow line
Close pack ice
Cold cap
Cold pole
Complete freeze-up
Congelifraction
Congeliturbation
Consolidated ice
Continental glacier
Cornice
Crack
Creeping flow
Crevasse
Crevasse hoar
Cryochore
Cryoconite hole
Cryogenic hygrometer
Cryogenic period
Cryology
Cryopedology
Cryoplanation
Cryoplankton
Cryosphere
Crystal
Crystal habit
Crystalline frost
Crystallization
Crystallization nucleus
Cup crystal
Dansgaard-Oeschger events
Days with snow cover
Dead glacier
Deformed ice
Deglaciation
Degrees of frost
De-icing
Dendritic crystal
Density of snow
Depergelation
Depth hoar
Depth of snow
Dewpoint
Downvalley wind
Dried ice
Drift ice
Drifting snow
Driven snow
Droxtal
Dry freeze
Dry ice
Dry permafrost
Dry snow
East Antarctic Ice Sheet
East Greenland current
Effective snowmelt
Equilibrium line
Fast ice
Finger rafting
Firn
Firn field
Firnification
Firn line
Firnspiegel
First-year ice
Fjord
Floating ice
Floe
Floeberg
Fog deposit
Fossil ice
Frazil
Frazil ice
Freeze
Freeze-free period
Freeze probability curve
Freeze-thaw pattern
Freeze-up
Freezing
Freezing drizzle
Freezing fog
Freezing index
Freezing level
Freezing-level chart
Freezing nucleus
Freezing point
Freezing precipitation
Freezing rain
Freezing season
Freezing spray
Friendly ice
Frigid zone
Frost
Frost action
Frost belt
Frost blister
Frost boil
Frostburn
Frost climate
Frost damage
Frost day
Frost depth
Frost-free season
Frost hazard
Frost heaving
Frost hollow
Frostless zone
Frost line
Frost mound
Frost point hygrometer
Frost protection
Frost ring
Frost smoke
Frost table
Frost zone
Frozen ground
Frozen precipitation
Gamma-ray snow gauge
Gap wind
Glacial
Glacial anticyclone
Glacial drift
Glacial epoch
Glacial geology
Glacial maximum
Glacial period
Glacial rebound
Glacial trough
Glaciation
Glaciation limit
Glacier
Glacier
Glacier flood
Glacier flow
Glacier front
Glacier ice
Glacierization
Glacier tongue
Glacier wind
Glaciology
Glaçon
Glare ice
Glaze
Grains of ice
Graupel
Gray ice
Grease ice
Green iceberg
Greenland Ice Sheet
Greenland Sea Deep Water
Green snow
Ground frost
Ground ice
Growler
Hail
Hailpad
Hail stage
Hailstone
Hailstorm
Hanging glacier
Hard freeze
Hard rime
High arctic climate
High foehn
Highland ice
High polar glacier
Hoar crystal
Hoarfrost
Hummock
Hummocked ice
Ice
Ice accretion
Ice-accretion indicator
Ice age
Ice and snow albedo-temperature feedback
Ice apron
Ice band
Ice band
Ice bay
Iceberg
Ice blink
Ice breakup
Ice-bulb temperature
Ice cap
Ice cover
Ice crust
Ice crystal
Ice-crystal cloud
Ice-crystal haze
Ice day
Ice desert
Iced firn
Ice drift
Ice edge
Icefall
Ice feathers
Ice field
Ice flow
Ice flowers
Ice fog
Ice foot
Ice forecast
Ice formation on aircraft
Ice front
Ice island
Ice jam
Ice keel
Icelandic low
Ice layer
Ice limit
Ice mixing ratio
Ice multiplication
Ice needle
Ice nuclei counter
Ice nucleus
Ice pellet
Ice plain
Ice point
Ice pole
Ice prisms
Ice raft
Ice regime phase
Ice rind
Ice rise
Ice run
Ice saints
Ice shelf
Ice storm
Ice stream
Ice structure
Ice tongue
Icicle
Icing
Icing intensity
Icing level
Icing-rate meter
Induction icing
Inland ice
Interglacial
Interglacial phase
Intermediate water
Irregular crystal
Isochasm
Isonival
Isostatic adjustment
January thaw
Jet stream
Katabatic wind
Kernel ice
Killing freeze
Kossava
Labrador Sea Water
Lake effect snow
Lake effect snowstorm
Lake ice
Lambing storm
Land ice
Last glacial
Last interglacial
Latent heat
Lead
Level ice
Life zone
Light freeze
Light frost
Little ice age
Living glacier
Lolly ice
Lombarde
Malvinas current
Maritime tundra
Mass balance
Melting layer
Melting level
Melting point
Melt pond
Metamorphosis of snow
Milky ice
Mollition
Moraine
Morphology
Mount Rose snow sampler
Multiyear ice
Muskeg
Needle ice
Neoglacial
Net balance
Nevada
Neve
New snow
Nilas
Nival
Noctilucent clouds
Nordenskjöld line
North foehn
Norwegian Sea Deep Water
Nova Zemlya
Nucleation
Nucleus
Ogive
Ogive
Old snow
Orographic precipitation
Orographic snowline
Outlet glacier
Ozone hole
Pack ice
Paleoclimate
Paleoclimatic sequence
Paleoclimatology
Paleocrystic ice
Pancake ice
Passive permafrost
Patterned ground
Penitent ice
Pergelation
Periglacial
Periglacial climate
Permafrost
Permafrost island
Permafrost table
Perpetual frost climate
Piedmont glacier
Pingo
Plane-dendritic crystal
Plate crystal
Pleistocene climate
Pleistocene epoch
Pleistocene glaciation
Pliocene climatic optimum
Pogonip
Polar air
Polar air depression
Polar amplification
Polar anticyclone
Polar cap absorption events
Polar cell
Polar climate
Polar continental air
Polar easterlies
Polar front
Polar frontal zone
Polar glacier
Polar high
Polar ice
Polar invasion
Polar low
Polar maritime air
Polar mesospheric clouds
Polar mesospheric summer echoes
Polar night jet stream
Polar outbreak
Polar stratospheric clouds
Polar trough
Polar vortex
Polar wandering
Polar wind
Polar wind divide
Pole
Pole of inaccessibility
Polynya
Positive feedback
Poudrin
Powder snow
Preactivation
Precipitation
Pressure ice
Pressure melting
Pressure melting
Pressure ridge
Purga
Quality of snow
Quaternary climate
Quaternary period
Radiation frost
Radioactive snow gauge
Rafted ice
Rain
Rain and snow mixed
Rain crust
Raingauge shield
Rammsonde
Ram penetrometer
Raw
Recording albedometer
Red snow
Regelation
Relative humidity with respect to ice
Returning polar maritime air
Ridge
Rime
Rime fog
Rime ice
Rime rod
Ripe
Ripening of snow
Rotor
Rotor cloud
Rotten ice
Rubber ice
Runoff
Rush of snowmelt flood
Sand snow
Sastruga
Sastrugi
Saturation
Scavenging by precipitation
Sea ice
Secondary ice crystal
Second-year ice
Serac
Shale ice
Shear ridge
Sheet frost
Sheet ice
Shell ice
Shore ice
Shuga
Siberian high
Sikussak
Silver frost
Sintering
Skavler
Sleet
Sludge
Sluff
Slush
Slush icing
Small hail
Snow
Snow accumulation
Snow banner
Snow blindness
Snow blink
Snow board
Snowbreak
Snow cap
Snow cloud
Snow concrete
Snow course
Snow cover
Snow-cover chart
Snowcreep
Snow crust
Snow crystal
Snow day
Snow density
Snowdrift
Snowdrift glacier
Snowdrift ice
Snow eater
Snowfall
Snow fence
Snowfield
Snowflake
Snow flurry
Snow forest climate
Snow garland
Snow gauge
Snow-generating level
Snow geyser
Snow grains
Snow ice
Snow line
Snow mat
Snowmelt
Snowmelt flood
Snowpack
Snowpack yield
Snow patch
Snow pellets
Snow pillow
Snow roller
Snow sampler
Snow shed
Snow shower
Snow stage
Snow stake
Snowstorm
Snow survey
Snow trails
Snow tremor
Soft rime
Spatial dendrite
Spicule
Splintering
Spongy ice
Spring snow
Standing cloud
Standpipe storage precipitation gauge
Stellar crystal
Subantarctic front
Subantarctic upper water
Subantarctic zone
Subarctic intermediate water
Subarctic upper water
Subgelisol
Sublimation of ice
Subpolar glacier
Sugar berg
Superimposed ice
Suprapermafrost layer
Surface albedo
Surface hoar
Tabular iceberg
Taiga
Taiga climate
Tail cloud
Talik
Taryn
Temperate glacier
Tented ice
Thaw
Thawing index
Thawing season
Thermokarst topography
Thermometer
Thundersnow
Tidal glacier
Tide crack
Tundra
Tundra climate
Tyndall flowers
Ubac
Undermelting
Unfreezing
Upbank thaw
Valley glacier
Valley wind
Water equivalent
Water equivalent of snow
Water equivalent of snow cover
Water snow
Weathered ice
Weathering
Weather window
Weddell deep water
Weighing rain gauge
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
West Greenland current
West Spitzbergen current
Wet snow
Whirlies
White band
White dew
White frost
White ice
Whiteout
Wild snow
Windbreak
Wind chill
Wind-chill index
Wind crust
Wind ridge
Wind ripple
Wind scoop
Wind slab
Winter
Winter ice
Winterization
Yalca
Yellow snow
Younger Dryas
Young ice
Zastrugi