Snow and Avalanche Glossary

- A - [Index Key]

ablation (zone)
accretion
accumulation zone
active control
advanced ET
advanced TG
age harden
airblast
albedo
alpha angle
anchors
anemometer
angle of repose
angular grains
anticyclonic
artificial avalanche
artificial control
aspect
avalanche
avalanche balloon
avalanche beacon
avalanche control
avalanche cord
avalanche cycle
avalanche debris
avalanche defense
avalanche hazard
avalanche path
avalanche size
avalanche terrain
avalanche toe
avalanche transceiver
avalanche warning
avalauncher

- B - [Index Key]

beacon
beam test
bed surface
bergschrund
beta angle
bonding
boot packing
breakable crust
bridging
burial, buried

- C - [Index Key]

calorie
canadian hardness gauge
cantilever beam test
centrifugal test
channeled; channel path
chinook
chute
climax avalanche
cohesion
cold dome
cold front
collapsing
column crystal
compression failure
compression zone
concave slope
condensation
conduction
consolidation
constructive metamorphism
convection
convergence
convex slope
corn snow
cornice
couloir
creep
crest cloud
crevasse
cross loading
crown
crown line
crown region
crown surface
crown wall
crust
crystal
cup crystal
cyclonic

- D - [Index Key]

data pit
decomposition
delayed action release
dendrite crystals
densification
density
density cutter
deposition
deposition zone
depth hoar
destructive metamorphism
dew point
direct action avalanche
divergence
dust cloud

- E - [Index Key]

elastic
energy balance
entrain
equilibrium growth
equitemperature metamorphism
evaporation
exposure

- F - [Index Key]

faceted grains, facets
failure plane
fall line
firn
firn line
firnspiegel
flank
foehn, fohn
foehn wall
forced convection
fracture line
fracture line profile
fractures
free water
front
full depth avalanche
funicular regime

- G - [Index Key]

glide
grain
grain chain
grain size
grain type
graupel
ground avalanche
gully

- H - [Index Key]

hand charge
hand lens
hard slab
hard slab avalanche
hardness
hasty pit
heat of fusion
heat of vaporization
high marking
high pressure
hoar crystal
hoar frost
homogeneous
howitzer

- I - [Index Key]

ice
ice crystal
ice lens
inclinometer
indicator slopes
instability
inversion
isothermal

- J - [Index Key]

jet roof

- K - [Index Key]

kinetic growth

- L - [Index Key]

laminar flow
layering
lee
loose snow
loose snow avalanches
low pressure
lubricating layer

- M - [Index Key]

melt freeze
melt water
meltwater crust
metamorphism
moisture content

- N - [Index Key]

natural avalanche
necks
needle crystal
new snow
nuclei

- O - [Index Key]

occluded front
old snow
orographic lifting

- P - [Index Key]

partially buried
passive control
pellet snow
pendular regime
percent water equivalent
percolation
perforated crust
plastic
plate crystal
pocket of instability
point release
pore space
post control release
powder avalanche
powder snow
precipitation
precipitation intensity
precipitation intensity factor
probe line
probe pole
protective skiing

- Q - [Index Key]

quasi liquid layer
quick pit

- R - [Index Key]

radiation
radiation balance
radiation recrystallization
radiational cooling
rain crust
randkluft
ram resistance
rammesonde
ram penetrometer
recco
recoilless rifle
recrystallization
relative humidity
release zone
remote triggering
rescue beacons
ridge
rimaye
rime, riming
rounding
route finding
runnels
runout zone

- S - [Index Key]

sastrugi
saturation
settled snow
settlement
settlement rate
shear
shear failure
shear frame
shear strength
shear stress
shear test
short waves
shovel test
sintering
ski checking
skier compaction
slab
slab avalanche
slab group
slide cycle
slope angle
slope distance
slope loading
slope meter
slope orientation
sluffs
slush
snow
snow barrier
snow cover
snow crystal
snow cushion
snow fence
snow gallery
snow layer
snow load
snow pillow
snow pit
snow plume
snow profile
snow saw
snow shed
snow slide
snow stake(s)
snowdrift
snowfall
snowfall intensity
snowflake
snowpack
snowpack structure
soft slab
soft slab avalanche
solar radiation
specific gravity
spindrift
spring avalanche
spring snow
stable
stabilization
starting zone
stationary front
stauchwall
stellar crystal
storm load
storm plot
strain
strain harden
stratigraphy
study plot
sublimation
sugar snow
sun crust
sunball
supercooled
supersaturation
surface energy
surface hoar
surface roughness
swiss test
sympathetic release

- T - [Index Key]

temperature gradient
temperature gradient metamorphism
tensile failure
tensile strength
tensile stress
tension zone
terrain trap
test skiing
tilt table
track
transceiver
transition of a slope
trigger
troposphere
trough
turbulent flow

- U - [Index Key]

unconfined avalanche
upper level TG

- V - [Index Key]

vapor pressure
vapor transport
vertical fall distance
viscosity

- W - [Index Key]

warm front
water equivalent
water saturation
water vapor
weak layer
weather front
wedge test
wet loose avalanche
wet slab
wet slab avalanche
wet snow
wet snow avalanche
wetness
whumpf
wind crust
wind loading
wind scour
wind slab
wind transport
windblast
windward
work harden

- X,Y,Z - [Index Key]