avalanche"1. (Also called snowslide.) A mass of snow (perhaps containing ice and rocks) moving rapidly down a steep mountain slope.
Avalanche Warnings Issued For San Juans, Grand Mesa
DENVER -- Winter storms are pounding Colorado's mountains and more snow is expected.
AVALANCHE - a large mass of rapidly moving snow down a steep mountain slope.
AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer. Main sensor on U.S. polar orbiting satellites.
AVN - Aviation Model generated every 12 hours by NCEP.
Avalanche Advisory
A preliminary notification that conditions may be favorable for the development of avalanches in mountain regions.
AVBL ...
Special Avalanche Warning Issued by the National Weather Service when avalanches are imminent or occurring in the mountains. It is usually issued for a 24 hour period.
Avalanche - A large body of snow, ice or rock and debris sliding down a mountain. Worldwide, about one million snow avalanches occur per year.
Cold Air Avalanche
Downslope flow pulsations that occur at more or less regular intervals as cold air builds up on a peak or plateau, reaches a critical mass, and then cascades down the slopes.
Cold Air Dam ...
7. Avalanches
8. Solar & Lunar Halos - Sun Dogs
9. Aurora Borealis - Northern Lights
10. Aurora Australis - Southern Lights
11. Intertropical Convergence Zone - 30 Degs. N. Lat. - 30 Degs. S. Lat.
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Browse Related Terms: CAD, Cold Air Avalanche, Cold Air Dam, Cold Air Damming (CAD), Effective Topography, Orographic Precipitation
Effective porosity - permalink - collapse ...
evaporation) which remove snow or ice from the surface of a glacier or from a snow-field. Also used to express the quantity lost by these processes. (2) Reduction of the water equivalent of a snow cover by melting, evaporation, wind and avalanches.
In Walhalla, an old gold-mining town in a narrow valley, disaster struck on the Tuesday night as an avalanche of water, rocks, silt and logs swept down over the town.
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The Deadly Avalanches of 1910 ...
 See also: Air, Wind, Temperature, Weather, Surface
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