Browse terms - alphabetical

Term	Definition	Contributor	Modified
Snow pack	Same as Snowcover; the combined layers of snow and ice on the ground at any one time.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snow pack	The annual amount of accumulated snow, usually expressed in terms of water equivalent.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snowpack	Field of naturally packed snow that usually melts slowly and yields water during the early summer months.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snowpack	The total snow and ice on the ground, including the new snow, the previous snow and ice which has not melted.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snowpack	The total snow and ice on the ground, including both new snow and the previous snow and ice which have not melted.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snowpack	The total snow and ice on the ground, including both the new snow and the previous snow and ice which has not melted.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snowpack	A laterally extensive accumulation of snow on the ground that persists through winter and melts in the spring and summer.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snowpack	The accumulation of snow at a given site and time; term to be preferably used in conjunction with the physical and mechanical properties of the snow on the ground. See also snow cover.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snowpack yield	Amount of water, from precipitation and/or snowmelt, that is not retained by the snowpack and reaches the soil surface.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snowpack yield	The amount of water that drains from the snowpack as a result of precipitation and/or snowmelt.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snow patch	(1) The snow remaining on the ground close to the end of snowmelt. Such a patchy, discontinuous snow cover is usually the result of slowly melting snow due to shading or areas of high accumulation. (2 ) An isolated mass of snow, especially one which persists through most or all of the ablation season (see also snezhnik).	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snow patch	Relatively small area of snow cover remaining after the main snowmelt period.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snow patch	Isolated area covered with snow, lying above or below the regional snowline, which may last throughout the summer.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snow patch	An isolated area of snow cover.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snow patch	An isolated area of snow, lying above or below the regional snow line, which may last throughout the summer and is composed of fern.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snowpatch	Relatively small area of snowcover remaining after the main snowmelt period	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snowpatch	A mass of snow of restricted extent, especially one that persists through most or all of the ablation season. Snowpatches are less extensive than snowfields, but the distinction is not made precisely in common usage. A snowpatch that is perennial may be difficult to distinguish from a glacieret.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snow pellets	A form of precipitation also known as graupel. Snow pellets are white, spherical bits of ice with a maximum diameter of 5 millimeters. Snow pellets develop when supercooled droplets freeze on snowflak es. Snow pellets often fall for a brief time period when precipitation transforms from ice pellets to snow. Snow pellets can be easily distinguished from packed snowflakes as they tend to bounce when they strike the ground. Packed snowflakes are not dense enough to cause them to bounce.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snow pellets	Precipitation, usually of brief duration, consisting of crisp, white, opaque ice particles, round or conical in shape and about 2 to 5 mm in diameter. Same as graupel or small hail.	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27
Snow pellets	Precipitation consisting of white, opaque, approximately round (sometimes conical) ice particles having a snowlike structure, and from about 2 mm to less than 5 mm in diameter. (Also called soft hail, graupel, tapioca snow.) Snow pellets are crisp and easily crushed, differing in this respect from snow grains. They rebound when they fall on a hard surface and often break up. In most cases, snow pellets fall in shower form, often before or together with snow, and chiefly on occasions when the surface temperature is at or slightly below 0C (32F). It is formed as a result of accretion of supercooled droplets collected on what is initially a falling ice crystal (probably of the spatial aggregate type).	GCW Glossary	2023.03.27

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