Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series: Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers
Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series: Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers
Editor/Author
Singh, Vijay P., Singh, Pratap and Haritashya, Umesh K.
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media
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ISBN: 978-90-481-2641-5
Category: Science - Geology
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665
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This encyclopedia mainly focuses on the various aspects of snow, ice and glaciers, but also covers other cryospheric branches, and provides up-to-date information and basic concepts on relevant topics. This book can serve as a source of reference at the undergraduate and graduate level and help better understand snow, ice and glaciers.
Table of Contents
- About the Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Guide to the Reader
- A
- Ablation Depression - Lasafam Iturrizaga
- Ablatometer - Rijan B. Kayastha
- Acidity of Glacier Ice - Cunde Xiao
- Active Ice Wedge - Pratima Pandey
- Adfreeze - Pratima Pandey
- Aerial Photogrammetry for Glacial Monitoring - Martin Kappas
- Alaskan Glaciers - Bruce F. Molnia
- Albedo - Thomas C. Grenfell
- Alps - Martin Beniston
- Altai-Sayan Glaciers - Vladimir Aizen
- Anabatic Winds: In Relation with Snow/Glacier Basin - Umesh K. Haritashya, Vijay P. Singh and Pratap Singh
- Anchor Ice - D. P. Dobhal
- Andean Glaciers - Mathias Vuille
- Anisotropic Ice Flow - Olivier Gagliardini
- Antarctica - Rasik Ravindra and Arun Chaturvedi
- Anti-Icing - Rijan B. Kayastha
- Anti-Syngenetic Ice Wedge - Pratima Pandey
- Appalachian Glacier Complex in Maritime Canada - Rudolph R. Stea
- Arctic Hydroclimatology - Jessica Ellen Cherry
- Artificial Ground Freezing - Rijan B. Kayastha
- Artificial Production of Snow - Carmen de Jong
- Atmosphere-Snow/Ice Interactions - Timo Vihma
- Atmospheric Circulation and Glaciochemical Records - Shichang Kang
- Automated Glacier Mapping - Frank Paul
- B
- Basal Sediment Evacuation by Subglacial Drainage Systems - Darrel A. Swift
- Base Flow/Groundwater Flow - Debasmita Misra, Ronald P. Daanen and Anita M. Thompson
- Bed (Bottom) Topography - Vijay Kumar
- Bed Forms (Fluvial) - Vijay Kumar
- Bed Roughness - Vijay Kumar
- Bed Strength - Vijay Kumar
- Benchmark Glacier - Tobias Bolch
- Biogeochemistry of Sea Ice - David N. Thomas
- Blue Ice - Richard Bintanja
- Bottom Melting or Undermelt (Ice Shelf) - Ashok Kumar Verma
- Brash Ice - Chelamallu Hariprasad
- C
- Calving Glaciers - Charles R. Warren
- Canadian Rockies and Coast Mountains of Canada - John J. Clague, Brian Menounos and Roger Wheate
- Cascade Mountains, USA - Rijan B. Kayastha
- Cascade System - Rijan B. Kayastha
- Catastrophic Flooding - Fiona Tweed
- Catastrophic Rock Slope Failures and Mountain Glaciers - Kenneth Hewitt, John J. Clague and Philip Deline
- Catchment Glacier - D. P. Dobhal
- Caucasus Mountains - Chris R. Stokes
- Characteristics of Snow and Glacier Fed Rivers in Mountainous Regions with Special Reference to Himalayan Basins - Akhouri Pramod Krishna
- Chemical Composition of Snow, Ice, and Glaciers - Amanda M. Grannas
- Chemical and Microbe Records in Snow and Ice - Liu Yongqin
- Chemical Processes in Snow and Ice - Amanda M. Grannas
- Circulation and Mixing in Ice-Covered Lakes - Lars Bengtsson
- Cirque Glaciers - Øyvind Paasche
- Climate Change and Glaciers - Arun B. Shrestha
- Climate Variability and High Altitude Temperature and Precipitation - Mathias Vuille
- Cloudburst - Vijay Kumar
- Cohesion - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Cold-Based Glaciers - Reginald D. Lorrain and Sean J. Fitzsimons
- Condensation Nuclei - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Confluence of Rivers - Anju Chaudhary
- Congelation Ice - Pratima Pandey
- Crack - Pratima Pandey
- Creep - Christophe Lambiel, Reynald Delaloye and Isabelle Gärtner-Roer
- Crevasses - C. J. van der Veen
- Critical Temperature - Pratima Pandey
- Crush - Pratima Pandey
- Crust - Pratima Pandey
- Cryoconite - Nozomu Takeuchi
- Cryodessication - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Cryofront - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Cryogenesis - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Cryogenic Aquiclude - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Cryogenic Fabric - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Cryolithology - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Cryopeg - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Cryosol - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Cryostatic Pressure - Pratima Pandey
- Cryostructure - Pratima Pandey
- Cryoturbation - P. Pradeep Kumar
- D
- Dating Glacial Landforms - Jason P. Briner
- Dead Ice - D. P. Dobhal
- Debris - Tobias Bolch
- Debris Thermal Properties and Impact on Ice Ablation - Ryohei Suzuki
- Debris-Covered Glaciers - Martin P. Kirkbride
- Deglaciation - Vinvent Rinterknecht
- Degree-Days - Roger J. Braithwaite
- Depletion of Snow Cover - Sanjay K. Jain
- Deposition from Debris-Rich Ice - Gulab Singh and Farjana S. Birajdar
- Digital Elevation Model Generation Over Glacierized Region - Thierry Toutin
- Digital Image Information Extraction Techniques for Snow Cover Mapping from Remote Sensing Data - Manoj K. Arora, Aparna Shukla and Ravi P. Gupta
- Direct Surface Runoff - Lars Bengtsson
- Discharge/Streamflow - Debasmita Misra, Ronald P. Daanen and Anita M. Thompson
- Distributary Channels - Anju Chaudhary
- Diurnal Cycle of Runoff - Darrel A. Swift
- Diverging Ice Flow - Gulab Singh and Farjana S. Birajdar
- Drift Glacier/Ice/Snow - Gulab Singh and Farjana S. Birajdar
- Dry and Wet Snow Line/Zone - Ravi P. Gupta
- Dry Snow - Ravi P. Gupta
- Dye Tracer Investigations of Glacier Hydrology - Peter Nienow
- Dynamics of Glaciers - Hester Jiskoot
- E
- Elongation Ratio - Vijay Kumar
- Englacial Conduit - D. P. Dobhal
- Englacial Processes - Andrew G. Fountain
- Environmental Isotopes - Bhishm Kumar
- Epigenetic Ice - Chelamallu Hariprasad
- Epiglacial Morphology - Claudio Smiraglia and Guglielmina Diolaiuti
- Equilibrium-Line Altitude (ELA) - Jostein Bakke and Atle Nesje
- Erosion of Hard Rock Bed - D. P. Dobhal
- Erosion Rate - Subhajit Sinha
- Estimation of Glacier Volume and Volume Change by Scaling Methods - David B. Bahr
- Estuary Ice Cover - Brian Morse
- F
- Fast Ice - D. P. Dobhal
- Finger Rafting - Dominic Vella and John Wettlaufer
- Firn - Rachel W. Obbard, Ian Baker and Rachel W. Lomonaco
- Fjords - Umesh K. Haritashya, Vijay P. Singh and Pratap Singh
- Foliation - Gulab Singh
- Forbes Band - Gulab Singh
- Formation and Deformation of Basal Ice - Simon J. Cook
- Frazil - Gulab Singh
- Freezing Bottom (Ice Shelf) - Gulab Singh
- Freezing Meltwater - Gulab Singh and F. S. Birajdar
- Freezing and Thawing Index - Jiang Fengqing and Zhang Yanwei
- Frequency Analysis of Snow Storms - Stanley A. Changnon
- Fresh Water Storage - Pratima Pandey
- Frictional Melting - Pratima Pandey
- Frost - Alan W. Rempel
- Frozen Soil Hydrology - Ronald P. Daanen, Debasmita Misra and Anita M. Thompson
- Frozen Toe (Outer Zone of Glacier Snout) - Pratima Pandey
- G
- Gelisols - Divya Dudeja
- Geochemistry of Snow and Ice - Tandong Yao, Yongqin Liu, Huabiao Zhao and Wusheng Yu
- Geocryology - Amit Kumar
- GIS in Glaciology - Jacob Napieralski
- Glacial Drainage Characteristics - Richard A. Marston
- Glacial Ecosystems - Nozomu Takeuchi
- Glacial Erosion - Ping Fu and Jonathan Harbor
- Glacial Erratic - D. P. Dobhal
- Glacial Geomorphology and Landforms Evolution - Alan R. Gillespie
- Glacial Grooves - D. P. Dobhal
- Glacial Overdeepening - Christopher Lloyd
- Glacial Striations - D. P. Dobhal
- Glacial Trough - D. P. Dobhal
- Glacial/Interglacial Cycles - Michel Crucifix
- Glaciation During Times of Enhanced/Reduced Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - Andrew B. G. Bush
- Glaciations and Groundwater Flow Systems - Jean-Michel Lemieux and Edward A. Sudicky
- Glacier - D. P. Dobhal
- Glacier Bird of the Andes - Douglas R. Hardy and Spencer P. Hardy
- Glacier Cave - Monohar Arora
- Glacier Field Studies: Important Things to Notice - John F. Shroder
- Glacier Hydrology - Pratap Singh
- Glacier Lake Outburst Floods - Lasafam Iturrizaga
- Glacier Mass Balance - Wilfried Haeberli
- Glacier Motion/Ice Velocity - Terry Hughes
- Glacier Pothole - Rajesh Kumar
- Glacier Sliding - Rajesh Kumar
- Glacier Surging - Hester Jiskoot
- Glacier System - Rajesh Kumar
- Glacier Toe - Rajesh Kumar
- Glaciers of the Karakoram Himalaya - Kenneth Hewitt
- Glacieret - Rajesh Kumar
- Glacierization - Rajesh Kumar
- Glacioeustasy - Amit Kumar
- Glaciofluvial - Rajesh Kumar
- Glaciogenic Deposits - Rajesh Kumar
- Glaciohydraulic Supercooling - Fiona Tweed
- Glacioisostasy - Amit Kumar
- Glaciolacustrine - Himali Panthri
- Glaciology - Peter G. Knight
- Glaciomarine - Amit Kumar
- Glaciostatic Pressure/Stress - Divya Dudeja
- Glaciotectonic Structures, Landforms, and Processes - James S. Aber and Andrzej Ber
- Global Climate Modeling in Cryospheric Assessment - Jeffrey Ridley
- Global Outlook of Snowcover, Sea Ice, and Glaciers - Mauri Pelto
- Global Warming and its Effect on Snow/Ice/Glaciers - Stephen J. Déry
- GPS in Glaciology, Applications - Matt A. King
- GRACE in Glaciology - John Wahr
- Granulometry - Amit Kumar
- Gravel Sheet - Amit Kumar
- Gravitational Mass Movement Deposits - D. P. Dobhal
- Gravity Flow (Mass Flow) - Rajesh Kumar
- Gray-White Ice - Chelamallu Hariprasad
- Greenland Glaciers Outside the Ice Sheet - Jacob C. Yde
- Greenland Ice Sheet - Poul Christoffersen
- Ground Ice - D. P. Dobhal
- Ground Penetrating Radar Measurements Over Glaciers - David C. Nobes
- H
- Heat and Mass Transfer in Sea Ice - Daniel J. Pringle
- High Elevation Glacio-Climatology - Vladimir Aizen
- Himalaya - John F. Shroder
- Himalayan Glaciers in 2010 and 2035 - J. Graham Cogley
- Hindu Kush - John F. Shroder
- Holocene Glacier Fluctuations - Johannes Koch
- Horizontal Component of Ablation - Rijan B. Kayastha
- Horizontal Component of Velocity - Rijan B. Kayastha
- Hummocks (Peat) - Subhajit Sinha
- Hydrochemical Characteristics of Snow, Ice, and Glaciers - Jacob Clement Yde
- Hydrogen Isotopes - Bhishm Kumar
- Hydrographs - Ian C. Willis
- Hydrologic Cycle and Snow - Ronald P. Daanen, Debasmita Misra and Anita M. Thompson
- Hydrological Response in Glacierized Basins - Ian C. Willis
- Hydrology of Jökulhlaups - Fiona Tweed
- Hydropower: Hydroelectric Power Generation from Alpine Glacier Melt - Mauri S. Pelto
- Hypsometry - Andrés Rivera, Fiona Cawkwell, Camilo Rada and Claudio Bravo
- Hysteresis - Vijay Kumar
- I
- Ice - Yoshinori Furukawa
- Ice Age - Matthias Kuhle
- Ice Age Cycles: Data, Models, and Uncertainties - Donald Rapp
- Ice Age Development Theory - Matthias Kuhle
- Ice Apron - Mahendra R. Bhutiyani
- Ice Caps - Mahendra R. Bhutiyani
- Ice Caves - Mahendra R. Bhutiyani
- Ice Core - Nancy A. N. Bertler
- Ice Covered Lakes - Lars Bengtsson
- Ice Dams - Mahendra R. Bhutiyani
- Ice Sheet - Alastair G. C. Graham
- Ice Sheet Mass Balance - Eric Rignot
- Ice Shelf - Adrian Jenkins
- Ice-Cored Moraines - Sven Lukas
- Ice-Dammed Lakes - Fiona Tweed
- Ice-Marginal Deposition - Mahendra R. Bhutiyani
- Ice-Marginal Processes - Matthew R. Bennett
- Ice-Volcano Interactions - Hugh Tuffen
- Icefall - Mahendra R. Bhutiyani
- Iceland Glaciers - Oddur Sigurðsson
- ICESat Data in Glaciological Studies - Thomas A. Neumann, H. J. Zwally and Bob E. Schutz
- Icicle - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Icing - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Impacts of Snow and Glaciers on Runoff - Sarah Boon
- Interception of Snow - Manmohan Kumar Goel
- Interflow - Manmohan Kumar Goel
- International Polar Year 2007–2008 - Ian Allison
- Interstitial Ice - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Intrusive Ice - Chelamallu Hariprasad
- Inventory of Glaciers - Frank Paul
- Inverse Methods in Glaciology - G. Hilmar Gudmundsson
- Inversion Layers - Mahendra R. Bhutiyani
- Inverted Cup Depth Hoar Crystals - Mahendra R. Bhutiyani
- Irreducible Water - Mahendra R. Bhutiyani
- Isotope Analysis - Tandong Yao, Wusheng Yu, Huabiao Zhao and Yongqin Liu
- Isotopic Characteristics of Ice, Snow, and Glaciers - Bhism Kumar
- Isotopic Fractionation of Freezing Water - Martyn Tranter
- Isotopic Signatures - Bhishm Kumar
- K
- Kame and Kettle Topography - Amit Kumar
- Katabatic Wind: In Relation With Snow and Glaciers - Amit Kumar
- Kilimanjaro - Douglas R. Hardy
- Kunlun Mountains - Jingshi Liu
- L
- Lake Ellsworth - John Woodward, Martin J. Siegert, Andy M. Smith and Neil Ross
- Lake Ice - Rajesh Kumar
- Lake Vostok - Malte Thoma
- Laminated Sediments - Rajesh Kumar
- Landforms of Glacial Deposition - John F. Shroder
- Landforms of Glacial Erosion - John F. Shroder
- Landforms of Glacial Transportation - John F. Shroder
- Landscapes of Glacial Erosion - Martin P. Kirkbride
- Last Glacial Maximum Glaciation (LGM/LGP) in High Asia (Tibet and Surrounding Mountains) - Matthias Kuhle
- Latent Heat of Condensation - Prem Datt
- Latent Heat of Fusion/Freezing - Prem Datt
- Latent Heat of Sublimation - Prem Datt
- Latent Heat of Vaporization/Condensation - Prem Datt
- Lateroglacial - Lasafam Iturrizaga
- Lateroglacial Landform Systems - Lasafam Iturrizaga
- Laurentide Ice Sheet - John T. Andrews
- Layering of Snow - Rajesh Kumar
- LIDAR in Glaciology - Michael N. Demuth
- Little Ice Age - Rajesh Kumar
- Lobe - Rajesh Kumar
- M
- Mapping of Internal Glacial Layers - David A. Braaten
- Marginal Channel (Lateral Meltwater Channel) - Amit Kumar
- Marginal Ice Zones - Rajesh Kumar
- Marine Glaciers - Rajesh Kumar
- Marine Ice Sheet - Rajesh Kumar
- Mechanical Weathering - Rajesh Kumar
- Median Elevation of Glaciers - D. P. Dobhal
- Mediterranean Glaciers and Glaciation - Philip D. Hughes
- Melt Runoff Modeling - Pratap Singh
- Melting Processes - Luke Copland
- Meltwater Channels - Cliff Atkins
- Meltwater Conduit - D. P. Dobhal
- Meltwater Erosion - Rajesh Kumar
- Meltwater Pressure - Rajesh Kumar
- Meltwater Storage - Pratap Singh
- Microorganisms Associated with Glaciers - Vanya I. Miteva
- Monitoring and Warning Systems - Markus Konz
- Monsoonal Records Observed from Snow/Ice/Glacier - Shichang Kang
- Moraine - Anders Schomacker
- Moulins - Umesh K. Haritashya, Vijay P. Singh and Pratap Singh
- Mount Everest - Rijan B. Kayastha
- Mount Kenya - William C. Mahaney
- Mountain Geomorphology - David R. Butler
- N
- Natural Hazards Associated with Glaciers and Permafrost - Andreas Kääb
- Negative Temperature Gradient (in Ice) - Rajesh Kumar
- Neoglaciation - Rajesh Kumar
- Network of Stakes - Pratap Singh
- New Zealand Glaciers - Wendy Lawson
- Niche Glacier - D. P. Dobhal
- Normalized-Difference Snow Index (NDSI) - Dorothy K. Hall and George A. Riggs
- Novaya Zemlya - Chris R. Stokes
- Nye (N) Channels - D. P. Dobhal
- O
- Ogives - Divya Dudeja
- Optical Remote Sensing of Alpine Glaciers - Duncan J. Quincey and Michael P. Bishop
- Orographic Precipitation - Justin R. Minder and Gerard H. Roe
- Outlet Glacier - Monohar Arora
- Overburden Pressure - Prem Datt
- Oxygen Isotopes - Bhishm Kumar
- P
- Palaeo Glaciofluvial Sediment Systems - Norm R. Catto
- Palaeo-Channel - Vijay Kumar
- Palaeo-Ice Stream - Chris R. Stokes
- Palaeoclimate and Past Glaciations - Philip D. Hughes
- Palaeohydrology - Vijay Kumar
- Pamirs - Vladimir Aizen
- Pancake Ice - Chelamallu Hariprasad
- Papua - Ian Allison
- Paraglacial Landscape Transformations - Lasafam Iturrizaga
- Patagonia - Stephan Harrison
- Paternoster Lakes - Umesh K. Haritashya, Vijay P. Singh and Pratap Singh
- Peak Flood Glacier Discharge - Monohar Arora
- Percolation Zone - Prem Datt
- Perennially Frozen Ground - Monohar Arora
- Periglacial - H. M. French
- Permacrete - Ashok Kumar Verma
- Permafrost - Yuri Shur, M. Torre Jorgenson and M. Z. Kanevskiy
- Permafrost on Asteroids - William C. Mahaney
- Permafrost and Climate Interactions - Sharon L. Smith and Margo M. Burgess
- Permafrost Modeling - Daniel Riseborough
- Permanent/Perpetual Snow Line - Monohar Arora
- Physical Properties of Snow - Florent Domine
- Piedmont Glaciers - Monohar Arora
- Pingo - Himali Panthri
- Plastic Deformation - A. K. Singh
- Plastic Flow - A. K. Singh
- Pleistocene Epoch - Amit Kumar
- Plucking - Amit Kumar
- Polythermal Glaciers - Neil F. Glasser
- Precipitation - Donna F. Tucker
- Proglacial Lakes - Brenda L. Hall
- Q
- Quaternary Glaciation - Jürgen Ehlers and Philip Gibbard
- R
- Radar Application in Snow, Ice, and Glaciers - G. Venkataraman and Gulab Singh
- Radiative Transfer Modeling - Jie Cheng and Shunlin Liang
- Radioactive Fallout - Bhishm Kumar
- Radioactive Isotopes - Bhishm Kumar
- Radioactivity - Bhishm Kumar
- Rain-Induced Snowmelt - Delphis F. Levia and Daniel J. Leathers
- Ram Resistance - Prem Datt
- Rating Curve - Ian C. Willis
- Recession Coefficient - Manmohan Kumar Goel
- Recession of Discharge - Manoj K. Jain
- Reconstruction of the Last Glaciations in the Whole of Asia - Matthias Kuhle
- Recrystallization of Ice - Ashok Kumar Verma
- Refreezing of Meltwater - Ashok Kumar Verma
- Regelation - Ashok Kumar Verma
- Remobilization (of Debris) - Renoj J. Thayyen
- Resedimentation - Subhajit Sinha
- Retreat/Advance of Glaciers - Luke Copland
- Rime Ice - Renoj J. Thayyen
- River Ice Hydrology - Hung Tao Shen
- Roche Moutonnees - Himali Panthri
- Rock Glaciers - John R. Giardino, Netra R. Regmi and John D. Vitek
- Rocky Mountains - Eric M. Leonard
- Röthlisberger (R)-Channels - Renoj J. Thayyen
- Runoff Coefficient - Manmohan Kumar Goel
- Runoff Generation - Anita M. Thompson, Debasmita Misra and Ronald P. Daanen
- Runoff Observations - Anita M. Thompson, Debasmita Misra and Ronald P. Daanen
- Runout Distance - A. K. Singh
- S
- Salinity - C. K. Jain
- Saltation - C. K. Jain
- Scandinavian Glaciers - Juha P. Lunkka
- Sea Ice - Matti Leppäranta
- Sea-Level - Anny Cazenave
- Seasonal Frost - Chelamallu Hariprasad
- Seasonal Snow Cover - Amit Kumar
- Sediment Budgets - Helen E. Reid and Gary J. Brierley
- Sediment Core and Glacial Environment Reconstruction - Jostein Bakke and Øyvind Paasche
- Sediment Entrainment, Transport, and Deposition - Michael J. Hambrey and Neil F. Glasser
- Sediment Flux Source-To-Sink - Achim A. Beylich
- Sediment Gravity Flow - George Postma
- Sediment Routing - Subhajit Sinha
- Sediment Transfer Modeling - Richard Hodgkins
- Sediment Yield - Kelly MacGregor
- SEM Analysis of Glacial Sediments - William C. Mahaney
- Septa of Englacial Debris - Subhajit Sinha
- Serac - Markus Konz
- Siberia - Kazuyoshi Suzuki
- Slush and Sleet of Snow - A. K. Singh
- Snow - A. K. Singh
- Snow Bed/Snow Bed Vegetation - Nadine Konz
- Snow Course - A. K. Singh
- Snow Cover and Snowmelt in Forest Regions - Tobias Jonas and Richard Essery
- Snow Cover Changes in the Alps - Christoph Marty
- Snow Crystal Structure - Kenneth G. Libbrecht
- Snow Deformation - Jerome B. Johnson
- Snow Density - Steven Fassnacht
- Snow Depth - Gavin Gong
- Snow Drift - Richard Bintanja
- Snow Gauge - A. K. Singh
- Snow Grains - Thomas H. Painter
- Snow Hydrology - Sarah Boon and Katie Burles
- Snow Layer - A. K. Singh
- Snow Load - A. K. Singh
- Snow Metamorphism - A. K. Singh
- Snow Microstructure - Christine Pielmeier
- Snow Pellet - A. K. Singh
- Snow Pillow - A. K. Singh
- Snow Pit - A. K. Singh
- Snow Ripening - A. K. Singh
- Snow Skating - Ashok Kumar Verma
- Snow Skiing - Ashok Kumar Verma
- Snow Storm - A. K. Singh
- Snow and Vegetation Interaction - Christopher A. Hiemstra and Glen E. Liston
- Snow Water Equivalent - Michael Durand
- Snowboard - Amit Kumar
- Solifluction - Stephen J. Walsh and Daniel J. Weiss
- Solute in Glacial Meltwaters - Martyn Tranter
- Solutes in Glacier Ice - Renoj Thayyen
- Specific Melt Rate - Pratap Singh
- Stable Isotopes - Bhishm Kumar
- Stage-Discharge Relationship - Amit Kumar
- Stationary Glacier - Renoj Thayyen
- Stratigraphy of Snowpacks - Peter W. Nienow and Fay Campbell
- Streamflow Trends in Mountainous Regions - Peter Molnar, Paolo Burlando and Francesca Pellicciotti
- Structural Glaciology - Michael J. Hambrey
- Subglacial Borehole Instrumentation - Philip R. Porter
- Subglacial Drainage System - Bryn Hubbard
- Subglacial Lakes, Antarctic - John C. Priscu
- Subglacial Processes - Sean Fitzsimons and Reginald Lorrain
- Subglacial Volcanism - Hugh Tuffen
- Subglacial Weathering - Markus Konz
- Sublimation from Snow and Ice - A. K. Singh
- Summer Accumulation Type Glaciers - Nozomu Naito
- Super Cooling Clouds - P. Pradeep Kumar
- Supercooled Water - Simon Cook
- Supra-Glacial Debris Entrainments - D. P. Dobhal
- Surface Energy Balance - Michiel Van den Broeke, Xavier Fettweis and Thomas Mölg
- Surface Temperature of Snow and Ice - Dorothy K. Hall
- Suspended Sediment Concentration - Veerle Vanacker
- Suspended Sediment Dynamics - Tim Stott
- Suspended Sediment Load - Amit Kumar
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometry for Glacier Movement Studies - Y. S. Rao
- T
- Talik - Tingjun Zhang
- Tarn - Himali Panthri
- Temperate Glaciers - Andrew Fountain
- Temperature Lapse Rates in Glacierized Basins - Shawn J. Marshall and Mira Losic
- Temperature Profile of Snowpack - Charles Fierz
- Terminus - Amit Kumar
- Terraces - Amit Kumar
- Thaw Weakening - Divya Dudeja
- Thermal Infrared Sensors - Anju Chaudhary
- Thermal Regime of Ice-Covered Lakes - Lars Bengtsson
- Thermokarst - Debasmita Misra, Ronald P. Daanen and Anita M. Thompson
- Thinning of Arctic Sea Ice - Ron Lindsay
- Thinning of Glaciers - Etienne Berthier
- Tibetan Plateau - Tandong Yao, Yongqin Liu, Huabiao Zhao and Wusheng Yu
- Tidewater Glaciers - Andreas Vieli
- Tien Shan Glaciers - Vladimir Aizen
- Till - Jan A. Piotrowski
- Topographic Normalization of Multispectral Satellite Imagery - Michael P. Bishop and Jeffrey D. Colby
- Transformations of Snow at the Earth’s Surface and its Climatic and Environmental Consequences - Florent Domine
- Transient Snowline - Markus Konz
- Tree-Ring Indicators of Glacier Fluctuations - Dan J. Smith and Lynn Koehler
- Tributary Glaciers - Hester Jiskoot
- U
- Urban Snow - Lars Bengtsson and Annette Semádeni-Davies
- U-Shape Valley - Amit Kumar
- V
- Vein Ice - Chelamallu Hariprasad
- V-Shaped Valley - Amit Kumar
- W
- Water Balance in the Glacierized Region - Heidi Escher-Vetter
- Westerlies and their Effects on Maritime Ice Caps and Glaciers - Robert D. McCulloch
- WGMS (World Glacier Monitoring Service) - Wilfried Haeberli
- Winter Accumulation Glacier - Amit Kumar
- Y
- Year-Round Ablation Pattern - Rijan B. Kayastha
- Younger Dryas - Sven Lukas
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