YAMZ Tag: PhysicalGeography

Tag Description: Pidwirny M., 2014, PhysicalGeography.net - Glossary of Terms [online], Available at: http://www.physicalgeography.net/glossary.html. [Accessed 07/02/2017].
Ablation zone
Abrasion
Accumulation
Accumulation zone
Active layer
Albedo
Alpine glacier
Alpine permafrost
Alpine tundra
Altitude
Antarctic circle
Antarctic high
Arctic circle
Arete
Aurora
Basal sliding
Bergschrund
Blizzard
Bora
Boreal forest
Calving
Canadian high
Canopy drip
Chinook wind
Cirque
Cirque glacier
Closed talik
Col
Cold desert
Cold glacier
Continental arctic air mass
Continental glacier
Continental polar air mass
Continuous permafrost
Coulee
Creep
Crevasse
Cryosol soil
Cryostatic pressure
Cryotic
Debris flow
Deposition
Depositional landform
Deposition nuclei
Deranged drainage
Dewpoint
Discontinuous permafrost
Drainage wind
Drift
Drumlin
Earth albedo
Erosion
Erosional landform
Erratic
Esker
Firn
Firn limit
Fjord
Freezing
Freezing rain
Freezing thaw action
Frost
Frost creep
Frost point
Frost wedging
Gelifluction
Gelisols
Glacial
Glacial drift
Glacial ice
Glacial lake
Glacial milk
Glacial polish
Glacial retreat
Glacial surge
Glacial trough
Glacial uplift
Glacial valley
Glacier
Glacier
Glaciofluvial
Glaze
Graupel
Ground frost
Ground ice
Ground moraine
Hail
Hanging valley
Holocene
Horn
Ice
Ice age
Iceberg
Ice cap
Ice fall
Ice field
Ice fog
Ice jam
Icelandic low
Ice lens
Ice pellet
Ice sheet
Ice shelf
Ice wedge
Interglacial
Isostatic depression
Isostatic rebound
Kame
Kame terrace
Katabatic wind
Kettle hole
Kettle moraine
Lateral moraine
Lee
Little ice age
Lobe
Loess
Maritime polar air mass (mP)
Mass balance
Medial moraine
Melting
Meltwater
Moraine
Muskeg
Needle ice
Neve
Nivation
Nivation hollow
Noctilucent clouds
North pole
Open talik
Orogenesis
Orogenic belt
Orographic precipitation
Outwash
Outwash plain
Ozone hole
Paleoclimate
Paleoclimatology
Palsa
Paternoster lakes
Patterned ground
Periglacial
Permafrost
Phase change
Piedmont glacier
Pingo
Pitted topography
Pleistocene epoch
Plucking
Polar cell
Polar easterlies
Polar front
Polar high
Polar jet stream
Polar stratospheric clouds
Polar vortex
Pore ice
Precipitation
Pressure melting point
Rain
Recessional moraine
Rime
Roche moutonnee
Rock flour
Sand wedge
Scour
Segregated ice
Siberian high
Sleet
Snout
Snow
Snowfield
Snow line
Snow melt
Snow pellets
Solifluction
South magnetic pole
South Pole
Sporadic permafrost
Stadial moraine
Stoss
Stratified drift
striations
Sublimation
Subpolar glacier
Subpolar lows
Subsea permafrost
Taiga
Taku
Talik
Tarn
Temperate glacier
Terminal moraine
Terminus
Thermokarst
Threshold velocity
Through talik
Till
Till plain
Tundra
Valley
Valley breeze
Valley train
Valley wall
Zone of ablation
Zone of accumulation