SnowTerm

  1. damage
  2. damage to a forest
  3. damage to terrain
  4. damp snow USE moist snow
  5. danger
  6. dangerous site
  7. dark nilas
  8. data
  9. data acquisition line
  10. data from satellites
  11. dating of ice
  12. datum state (glacier)
  13. DD USE degree-day
  14. dead
  15. dead ice
  16. deadman
  17. death
  18. death by asphyxia
  19. death by suffocation USE death by asphyxia
  20. debris
  21. debris covered glacier
  22. decay snow USE saturation with water (snow pack)
  23. deciduous forest USE leafy wood
  24. decomposing and fragmented precipitation particles
  25. decrease in temperature
  26. deep abyssal plain
  27. deep basin
  28. deep probe USE ram penetrometer
  29. deep snow
  30. deep upwelling
  31. deep water masses
  32. deep-snow skier USE back-country skier
  33. deep-water currents
  34. defense structure
  35. defense structure area
  36. defenses against snow creep
  37. deflecting barrier
  38. deflecting cross USE cruciform wind-baffle
  39. deflecting dam USE deflecting barrier
  40. deflecting dike USE deflecting barrier
  41. deflecting force
  42. deflecting structure
  43. deflecting wall
  44. deflection angle
  45. deflection dam
  46. deformation
  47. deformation processes
  48. deformed ice
  49. degree of avalanche danger
  50. degree of avalanche hazard USE degree of avalanche danger
  51. degree of avalanche risk USE degree of avalanche danger
  52. degree of loading
  53. degree-day
  54. delimited track USE marked ski run
  55. Denoth meter
  56. density
  57. density effect on deformation rate
  58. density inversion
  59. density of constructions
  60. density of snow USE snow density
  61. density variation with depth
  62. deposit (avalanche)
  63. deposition USE accumulation of snow
  64. deposition area USE zone of deposition
  65. deposition of drifted snow USE snow drift
  66. deposition of wind - transported snow USE snow drift
  67. depression USE deep basin
  68. depression area
  69. depth hoar
  70. depth of burial
  71. depth of fracture USE height of crown
  72. depth of snow cover USE snow height
  73. descent
  74. descent corridor USE descent passage
  75. descent passage
  76. descent route
  77. descent track
  78. desk USE desk roof
  79. desk roof
  80. destabilised
  81. destruction
  82. destructive metamorphism USE light gradient metamorphism
  83. detachable chairlift USE chairlift
  84. detonating cord
  85. detonation USE bang
  86. detonator USE igniter
  87. Deuterium excess
  88. developed area
  89. development of snowpack USE snowpack evolution
  90. dew
  91. dew point
  92. dew-point temperature USE dew point
  93. DF USE decomposing and fragmented precipitation particles
  94. DFbk USE wind broken particles
  95. DFdc USE partly decomposed particles
  96. DH USE depth hoar
  97. DHch USE chains of depth hoar
  98. DHcp USE hollow cups
  99. DHla USE large striated crystals
  100. DHpr USE hollow prisms
  101. DHxr USE rounding depth hoar
  102. diamond dust
  103. differential ablation
  104. diffluent glacier
  105. diffuse ice edge
  106. diffusion coefficient USE albedo
  107. diffusion of ice molecules
  108. diffusion of kinematic wave
  109. digging out
  110. dilatancy
  111. dilatation
  112. dilatation of fracture USE strain at failure
  113. dilution method
  114. DIMENSIONS
  115. dip
  116. direction finding
  117. direction finding antenna
  118. directional value USE guideline value
  119. disappearance point USE last seen point (of the avalanche victim)
  120. discharge USE rate of flow
  121. discharge above the snow surface
  122. discharging of snow (from trees)
  123. disciplines
  124. dislocations in ice
  125. displacement
  126. dissociation pressure
  127. distance measured along the slope USE slope distance
  128. distance of rope
  129. distress signal
  130. distribution of local dangers USE distribution of local risks
  131. distribution of local risks
  132. disturbance
  133. diverging
  134. domed iceberg
  135. double frequency rescue beacon
  136. double T beam
  137. down jacket
  138. downdraw
  139. downpour USE rain shower
  140. downwind slope USE lee slope
  141. draglift USE ski-tow
  142. drainage glacier
  143. draught
  144. dried ice
  145. drift control structures USE snowfences
  146. drift ice
  147. drifted snow
  148. drifting snow
  149. driving stress
  150. drizzle
  151. dropping from helicopter
  152. drumlin
  153. dry draught
  154. dry snow
  155. dry snow avalanche
  156. dry snow line
  157. dry snow zone USE dry-snow zone
  158. dry stone wall
  159. dry-snow zone
  160. drydocked iceberg
  161. dud
  162. dug out material
  163. dummy
  164. dump moraine
  165. duration of burial
  166. dust in ice
  167. dwarf pine USE knee pine
  168. dye-tracing
  169. DYNAMIC ASPECTS
  170. dynamic recrystallization
  171. dynamometer