Tag: NSIDCCryosphere

Tag Description: NSIDC, The National Snow and Ice Data Center glossary is available at https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glossary, Last accessed [26/01/2016].
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Ablation
Ablation area
Ablation hollows
Ablation moraine
Accumulation
Active ice wedge
Active layer
Active layer failure
Active layer thickness
Active rock glacier
Active thermokarst
Aggradational ice
Alas/alass
Albedo
Alpine glacier
Anchor ice
Anti-syngenetic ice wedge
Apparent heat capacity
Arete
Artificial ground freeezing
Avalanche
Banded cryogenic fabric
Band ogives
Barrens
Basal cryopeg
Basal cryostructure
Basal sliding
Bergschrund
Bergy bit
Beset
Bight
Blind lead
Blizzard
Blow hole
Blowing snow
Bottom bergs
Branched-valley glacier
Brash ice
Brine
BTS method
Bummock
Calve
Calving
Calving glacier
Catchment glacier
Cave ice
Chattermarks
Cirque
Cirque glacier
Close cavity ice
Closed-system freezing
Closed-system pingo
Closed talik
Close pack ice
Cold glacier
Collapse scar
Composite wedge
Compression flow
Congelation ice
Conglomeric cryogenic fabric
Consolidated pack ice
Continuous permafrost
Continuous permafrost zone
Cornice
Crack
Creep
Creep of frozen ground
Creep strength
Crevasse
Crevasse hoar
Crust
Crust-like cryostructure
Cryofront
Cryogenesis
Cryogenic aquiclude
Cryogenic fabric
Cryogenic temperature
Cryolithology
Cryopedology
Cryopeg
Cryoplanation terrace
Cryosol
Cryosphere
Cryostructure
Cryosuction
Cryotexture
Cryotic ground
Cryoturbate
Cryoturbation
Dead ice
De-icing
Dendrite
Density of frozen ground
Depth hoar
Depth of seasonal frost penetration
Depth of snow
Depth of thaw
Depth of zero annual amplitude
Design depth of frost penetration
Design freezing index
Design thawing index
Destructive metamorphism
Detachment failure
Diamond dust
Dilation crack
Dilation crack ice
Dirt cone
Dirty ice
Discontinuous permafrost
Discontinuous permafrost zone
Disequilibrium permafrost
Drain channel
Drift glacier
Drift ice
Drifting snow
Drift of ice
Drumlin
Drunken forest
Dry density
Dry frozen ground
Dry permafrost
Dump moraine
Earth hummock
Edge wasting
End moraine
Epigenetic ice
Epigenetic ice wedge
Epigenetic permafrost
Equilibrium permafrost
Equilibrium zone
Esker
Extending flow
Extensive discontinuous permafrost
False ogives
Fast ice
Finger rafting
Firn
Firn
Firn limit
Firn line
Firnspiegel
Firn water table
First-year ice
Fjord
Flaw lead
Floating ice
Floe
Flooded sea ice
Flow finger
Fluted berg
Foliation
Forbes bands
Forel stripes
Fragmic cryogenic fabric
Fragmoidal cryogenic fabric
Frazil
Frazil ice
Freezeback
Freezing degree-days
Freezing drizzle
Freezing front
Freezing index
Freezing (of ground)
Freezing point
Freezing-point depression
Freezing pressure
Freezing rain
Friable permafrost
Friendly ice
Frost
Frost action
Frost blister
Frost boil
Frost bulb
Frost creep
Frost flowers
Frost heave
Frost heave extent
Frost jacking
Frost mound
Frost penetration
Frost phenomena
Frost point
Frost shattering
Frost smoke
Frost sorting
Frost-stable ground
Frost-stable soil
Frost-susceptible ground
Frost-susceptible soil
Frost weathering
Frost wedging
Frozen fringe
Frozen ground
Fusion
Gelifluction
Geocryology
Geyser
Glacial advance
Glacial erratic
Glacial grooves
Glacial retreat
Glacial striations
Glacial till
Glacial trough
Glaciated
Glacier
Glacier
Glacier cave
Glacieret
Glacier fire
Glacier flood
Glacier flour
Glacier ice
Glacierized
Glacier mill
Glacier pothole
Glacier remainie
Glacier snout
Glacier sole
Glacier table
Glacier terminus
Glacier toe
Glacier tongue
Glacier trough
Glacier wind
Glaze
Granic cryogenic fabric
Granoidic cryogenic fabric
Graupel
Grease ice
Grey-white ice
Grid
Ground ice
Ground moraine
Growler
Hail
Halo
Hanging glacier
Hanging valley
Hard frozen ground
Headwall
Heaving pressure
High-center polygon
Hoarfrost
Horn
Hostile ice
Hummock
Hummocking
Hydration shattering
Hydraulic thawing
Hydrochemical talik
Hydrothermal talik
Ice
Ice apron
Ice-bearing permafrost
Iceberg
Iceberg tongue
Ice blink
Ice-bonded permafrost
Icebound
Ice cake
Ice canopy
Ice cap
Ice cave
Ice-cemented glacier
Ice cluster
Ice concentration
Ice content
Ice core
Ice-cored glacier
Ice-cored topography
Ice covered
Ice divide
Ice edge
Ice extent
Icefall
Icefield
Ice floe
Ice fog
Icefoot
Ice fringe
Ice front
Ice gland
Ice island
Ice jam
Ice keel
Ice lens
Ice limit
Ice-nucleation temperature
Ice patrol ship
Ice pellet
Ice piedmont
Iceport
Ice prisms
Ice quake
Ice-rich permafrost
Ice rind
Ice rise
Ice segregation
Ice sheet
Ice shelf
Ice skylight
Ice stream
Ice vein
Ice wall
Ice wedge
Ice-wedge cast
Ice-wedge polygon
Ice worm
Icicle
Iciness
Icing
Icing blister
Icing glade
Icing mound
Inactive ice wedge
Inactive rock glacier
Inland ice sheet
Interfacial water
Intermediate discontinuous permafrost
Internal ice stress
Interstitial ice
Intrapermafrost water
Intrusive ice
Isoband cryogenic fabric
Isolated cryopeg
Isolated patches of permafrost
Isolated talik
Jokulhlaup
Keel
Kinetic-growth metamorphism
Lake ice
Lake talik
Latent heat polynya
Lateral moraine
Lateral talik
Latitudinal limit of permafrost
Latitudinal zonation of permafrost
Layered cryostructure
Lead
Lead shore
Lens ice
Lens-type cryostructure
Level ice
Little ice age
Long-term strength
Low-center polygon
Luminous pillars
Macro-scale polygons
Marginal crevasse
Marginal ice zone
Marine cryopeg
Mass balance
Massive-agglomerate cryostructure
Massive cryostructure
Massive ice
Massive-porous cryostructure
Maximum ice extent
Mean annual ground-surface temperature (MAGST)
Mean annual ground temperature (MAGT)
Medial moraine
Megadunes
Melt pond
Meltwater conduit
Micro-scale polygon
Minerogenic palsa
Mires
Mixed precipitation
Moraine
Moraine shoal
Moulin
Mountain glacier
Mountain permafrost
Mud circle
Multiple retrogressive slide
Multiyear ice
Needle ice
Negative mill
Neve
New ice
New snow
N-factor
Niche glacier
Nilas
Nip
Noncryotic ground
Nonsorted circle
Nonsorted net
Nonsorted polygon
Nonsorted step
Nonsorted stripe
Nunatak
Ogive
Ogive
Old ice
Old snow
Onshore permafrost
Open-cavity ice
Open lead
Open pack ice
Open-system freezing
Open-system pingo
Open talik
Open water
Orbiculic cryogenic fabric
Organic cryosol
Oriented lake
Outburst flood
Outlet glacier
Pack ice
Palsa
Palsa bog
Pancake ice
Partially-bonded permafrost
Patch
Patterned ground
Peat
Peat hummock
Peatland
Peat plateau
Penitents
Pereletok
Perennial snow
Periglacial
Periglacial phenomena
Periglacial processes
Permacrete
Permafrost
Permafrost aggradation
Permafrost base
Permafrost boundary
Permafrost degradation
Permafrost extent
Permafrost limit
Permafrost region
Permafrost table
Permafrost thickness
Permafrost zone
Permanent ice zone
Piedmont glacier
Pingo
Pingo ice
Pingo remnant
Pingo scar
Planetary permafrost
Plastic frozen ground
Polar glacier
Polar ice cap
Polyarnik
Polycrystal
Polygon
Polygonal pattern
Polygonal peat plateau
Polygon trough
Polynya
Poorly-bonded permafrost
Pore ice
Pothole
Powder snow
Pressure ice
Pressure melting
Pressure melting
Pressure melting
Pressure ridge
Puddle
Push moraine
Radius-dependent metamorphism
Rafted ice
Rafting
Ram
Randkluft
Reconstituted glacier
Recurring polynya
Red algae
Regelation
Regenerated glacier
Relict active layer
Relict ice
Relict permafrost
Residual thaw layer
Reticulate-blocky cryostructure
Reticulate cryostructure
Reticulate ice
Retreat
Retreating glacier
Retrogressive thaw slump
Ridge ice
Ridging
Rime
Ripple marks
River ice
River talik
Rock flour
Rock glacier
Rotten ice
Sail
Saline permafrost
Salinity
Sand-wedge polygon
Sastrugi
Sea ice
Sea ice development stage
Sea ice extent
Sea ice maximum extent
Sea ice minimum extent
Sea smoke
Seasonal freezing index
Seasonal frost
Seasonal ice zone
Seasonally-active permafrost
Seasonally frozen ground
Seasonally frozen layer (SFL)
Seasonally thawed ground
Seasonally thawed layer (STL)
Seasonal snow
Seasonal thawing index
Sea surface temperature
Second-year ice
Sedimentary ogives
Segregated ice
Segregation potential
Semipermanent anticyclone
Sensible heat polynya
Serac
Shore lead
Short-term strength
Shuga
Sikussak
Single-phase thermosyphon
Sintering
Sleet
Slope failure
Slush
Slush zone
Snow
Snow barchan
Snowblink
Snow board
Snow bridge
Snowbursts
Snow core
Snow cover
Snow density
Snow depth
Snowdrift
Snowdrift glacier
Snow extent
Snowfall
Snowflake
Snow flurry
Snow grains
Snow layer
Snow line
Snow load
Snowmelt
Snowpack
Snow patch
Snow pellets
Snow roller
Snow squall
Snowstorm
Snow water equivalent
Snow worm
Soil wedge
Sorted circle
Sorted net
Sorted polygon
Sorted step
Sorted stripe
Splay crevasse
Sporadic discontinuous permafrost
Stamukhi
Static cryosol
Strand crack
String fen
Strip
Subglacial permafrost
Subglacial talik
Sublimation
Sublimation ice
Subpermafrost water
Subpolar glacier
Subsea permafrost
Subsea talik
Summer minimum extent
Suncups
Sunspot
Suprapermafrost water
Surface cryogenic fabric
Surface freezing index
Surface hoar
Surging glacier
Syngenetic ice
Syngenetic ice wedge
Syngenetic permafrost
Tabular iceberg
Taiga
Talik
Tarn
Telescoped ice
Terminus
Thaw bulb
Thaw consolidation
Thaw consolidation ratio
Thawed ground
Thaw hole
Thawing front
Thawing index
Thawing (of frozen ground)
Thaw penetration
Thaw-sensitive permafrost
Thaw settlement
Thaw sink
Thaw slumping
Thaw-stable permafrost
Thaw strain
Thaw unconformity
Thaw weakening
Theodolite
Thermal-contraction crack
Thermal-contraction-crack ice
Thermal erosion
Thermal pile
Thermal properties of frozen ground
Thermal regime of the ground
Thermal talik
Thermodynamic equilibrium thickness
Thermo-erosional cirque
Thermo-erosional niche
Thermokarst
Thermokarst lake
Thermokarst mound
Thermokarst terrain
Thermosyphon
Thomson crystal
Thufur
Tide crack
Tidewater glacier
Tongue
Total annual freezing index
Total annual thawing index
Total water content (of frozen ground)
Transient talik
Tributary glacier
Tundra
Turbic cryosol
Turf-banked (solifluction) lobe
Turf-banked (solifluction) terrace
Turf hummock
Two-layer permafrost
Two-phase thermosyphon
Unbreakable crust
Unfrozen ground
Unfrozen water content
Upward freezing
Valley glacier
Vein ice
Very close pack ice
Very open pack ice
Watermelon snow
Wave ogives
Weathered ice
Wedge ice
Well-bonded permafrost
Whiteout
Yedoma
Young ice
Young's modulus
Zero curtain