YAMZ Tag: IPAPermafrost

Tag Description: van Everdingen, Robert, ed., 2005 (1998 revised May 2005). Multi-language glossary of permafrost and related ground-ice terms. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology. [PDF] This glossary is sponsored by the International Permafrost Association. It is a revised version of Harris et al. (1988) and is available in multiple languages at NSIDC.
Active air-cooled thermal pile
Active construction methods in permafrost
Active ice wedge
Active layer
Active layer failure
Active layer thickness
Active liquid refrigerant pile
Active rock glacier
Active thermokarst
Adfreeze strength
adfreezing
Aggradational ice
Air freezing index
Air thawing index
Alas/alass
Altitudinal limit of permafrost
Altitudinal zonation of permafrost
Anti-syngenetic ice wedge
Apparent heat capacity
Approximate freezing index
Approximate thawing index
Artificial ground freezing
Banded cryogenic fabric
Barrens
Basal cryopeg
Basal cryostructure
Basal-layered cryostructure
Beaded stream
Block field
Bottom temperature of snow cover
BTS method
Buried ice
Cave ice
Closed-cavity ice
Closed-system freezing
Closed-system pingo
Closed talik
Coefficient of compressibility
Collapse scar
Composite wedge
Conglomeric cryogenic fabric
Construction methods in permafrost
Continuous permafrost
Continuous permafrost zone
Creep of frozen ground
Creep strength
Crust-like cryostructure
Cryofront
Cryogenesis
Cryogenic aquiclude
Cryogenic fabric
Cryogenic temperature
Cryolithology
Cryopedology
Cryopeg
Cryoplanation
Cryoplanation terrace
Cryosol
Cryosphere
Cryostructure
Cryosuction
Cryotexture
Cryotic ground
Cryoturbate
Cryoturbation
Debris flow
Deformability
Degree-day
Degree of saturation
Delayed strength
Density of frozen ground
Depth of seasonal frost penetration
Depth of thaw
Depth of zero annual amplitude
Desiccation crack
Desiccation polygon
Design depth of frost penetration
Design freezing index
Design thawing index
Detachment failure
Dielectric constant
Dilation crack
Dilation crack ice
Discontinuous permafrost
Discontinuous permafrost zone
Disequilibrium permafrost
Drunken forest
Dry density
Dry frozen ground
Dry permafrost
Dynamic modulus of elasticity
Dynamic Poisson's ratio
Earth hummock
Electrical conductivity
Electrical properties of frozen ground
Electrical resistivity
Epigenetic ice
Epigenetic ice wedge
Epigenetic permafrost
Equilibrium permafrost
Excess ice
Extensive discontinuous permafrost
Fabric
Footerm
Fragmic cryogenic fabric
Fragmoidal cryogenic fabric
Free water
Freezeback
Freeze-thaw cycle
Freezing front
Freezing index
Freezing (of ground)
Freezing point
Freezing-point depression
Freezing pressure
Friable permafrost
Frost
Frost action
Frost blister
Frost boil
Frost bulb
Frost creep
Frost heave
Frost-heave extent
Frost jacking
Frost mound
Frost penetration
Frost phenomena
Frost shattering
Frost sorting
Frost-stable ground
Frost-stable soil
Frost-susceptible ground
Frost-susceptible soil
Frost weathering
Frost wedging
Frozen fringe
Frozen ground
Gas hydrate
Gelifluction
Geocryology
Geothermal gradient
Geothermal heat flux
Glacier
Glacier
Granic cryogenic fabric
Granoidic cryogenic fabric
Gravimetric (total) water content
Ground ice
Hard frozen ground
Heat capacity
Heaving pressure
High-center polygon
Hydraulic conductivity
Hydraulic diffusivity
Hydraulic thawing
Hydrochemical talik
Hydrothermal talik
Ice
Ice-bearing permafrost
Ice bonded permafrost
Ice content
Ice-cored topography
Ice lens
Ice-nucleation temperature
Ice-rich permafrost
Ice segregation
Ice vein
Ice wedge
Ice-wedge cast
Ice-wedge polygon
Iciness
Icing
Icing blister
Icing glade
Icing mound
Inactive ice wedge
Inactive rock glacier
Interfacial water
Intermediate discontinuous permafrost
Intrapermafrost water
Intrusive ice
Isoband cryogenic fabric
Isolated cryopeg
Isolated patches of permafrost
Isolated talik
Kurum
Lake talik
Latent heat (of fusion)
Lateral talik
Latitudinal limit of permafrost
Latitudinal zonation of permafrost
Layered cryostructure
Lens ice
Lens-type cryostructure
Long-term strength
Low-centre polygon
Macro-scale polygons
Marine cryopeg
Massive-agglomerate cryostructure
Massive cryostructure
Massive ice
Massive-porous cryostructure
Mass wasting
Mean annual ground-surface temperature (MAGST)
Mean annual ground temperature (MAGT)
Mechanical properties of frozen ground
Mechanical strength
Micro-scale polygon
Minerogenic palsa
Mountain permafrost
Mud circle
Multiple retrogressive slide
Needle ice
N-factor
Noncryotic ground
Nonsorted circle
Nonsorted net
Nonsorted polygon
Nonsorted step
Nonsorted stripe
Onshore permafrost
Open-cavity ice
Open-system freezing
Open-system pingo
Open talik
Orbiculic cryogenic fabric
Organic cryosol
Oriented lake
Palsa
Palsa bog
Partially-bonded permafrost
Passive construction methods in permafrost
Passive single-phase thermal pile
Passive two-phase thermal pile
Patterned ground
Peat
Peat hummock
Peatland
Peat plateau
Pereletok
Periglacial
Periglacial phenomena
Periglacial processes
Permacrete
Permafrost
Permafrost aggradation
Permafrost base
Permafrost boundary
Permafrost degradation
Permafrost limit
Permafrost region
Permafrost table
Permafrost thickness
Permafrost zone
Pingo
Pingo ice
Pingo remnant
Pingo scar
Planetary permafrost
Plastic frozen ground
Poisson's ratio
Polygon
Polygonal pattern
Polygonal peat plateau
Polygon trough
Poorly-bonded permafrost
Pore ice
Pore water
Pressure melting
Relative permittivity
Relict active layer
Relict ice
Relict permafrost
Residual stress
Residual thaw layer
Reticulate-blocky cryostructure
Reticulate cryostructure
Reticulate ice
Retrogressive thaw slump
River talik
Rock glacier
Saline permafrost
Salinity
Sand wedge
Sand-wedge polygon
Seasonal freezing index
Seasonal frost
Seasonally-active permafrost
Seasonally frozen ground
Seasonally frozen layer (SFL)
Seasonally thawed ground
Seasonally thawed layer (STL)
Seasonal thawing index
Segregated ice
Segregation potential
Short-term strength
Single-phase thermosyphon
Snow
Snowcover
Snowdrift
Snowline
Snowmelt
Snowpatch
Soil wedge
Solifluction
Solifluction apron
Solifluction features
Solifluction lobe
Solifluction sheet
Solifluction terrace
Sorted circle
Sorted net
Sorted polygon
Sorted step
Sorted stripe
Specific heat capacity
Sporadic discontinuous permafrost
Static cryosol
Stone-bankeded (solifluction) terrace
Stone-banked (solifluction) lobe
Stone garland
Stony earth circle
String fen
Subglacial permafrost
Subglacial talik
Sublimation ice
Subpermafrost water
Subsea permafrost
Subsea talik
Supercooling
Suprapermafrost water
Surface freezing index
Surface thawing index
Suscitic cryogenic fabric
Syngenetic ice
Syngenetic ice wedge
Syngenetic permafrost
Talik
Temperature profile
Thaw basin
Thaw bulb
Thaw consolidation
Thaw consolidation ratio
Thawed ground
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
Thermal conductivity
Thermal-contraction crack
Thermal-contraction-crack ice
Thermal diffusivity
Thermal erosion
Thermal expansion (or contraction) coefficient
Thermal pile
Thermal properties of frozen ground
Thermal regime of the ground
Thermal talik
Thermo-erosional cirque
Thermo-erosional niche
Thermokarst
Thermokarst lake
Thermokarst mound
Thermokarst terrain
Thermosyphon
Thufur
Total annual freezing index
Total annual thawing index
Total water content (of frozen ground)
Transient talik
Tundra
Turbic cryosol
Turf-banked (solifluction) lobe
Turf-banked (solifluction) terrace
Turf hummock
Two-layer permafrost
Two-phase thermosyphon
Unfrozen ground
Unfrozen water content
Upward freezing
Vein ice
Volumetric heat capacity
Volumetric latent heat of fusion
Volumetric (total) water content
Waterbody encircling a palsa
Wedge ice
Well-bonded permafrost
Young's modulus
Zero curtain