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115 relations: Acicular (crystal habit), Adsorption, Alaska, Altitude, Atmosphere, Atmospheric icing, Avalanche, Azores, Île Amsterdam, Île Saint-Paul, Bacteria, Black ice, Bog, California, Cell (biology), Citrus, Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand, Clear ice, Cold hardening, Condensation, Contiguous United States, Cruciferous vegetables, Cryobiology, Crystal, Crystal growth, Dülmen, Ded Moroz, Dendrite (crystal), Deposition (phase transition), Depth hoar, Dew, Dew point, Dust bunny, East Java, Emissivity, Enthalpy of fusion, European Space Agency, Farmer, Florida Keys, Fractal, Fractal dimension, Freezing, Freezing air temperature, Frost crack, Frost heaving, Frost line, Frostbite, Gas, Greater Western Sydney, Ground frost, ... Expand index (65 more) »
- Frost and rime
- Psychrometrics
Acicular (crystal habit)
Acicular, in mineralogy, refers to a crystal habit composed of slender, needle-like crystals.
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Adsorption
Adsorption is the adhesion of atoms, ions or molecules from a gas, liquid or dissolved solid to a surface.
Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
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Altitude
Altitude is a distance measurement, usually in the vertical or "up" direction, between a reference datum and a point or object.
Atmosphere
An atmosphere is a layer of gasses that envelop an astronomical object, held in place by the gravity of the object.
Atmospheric icing
Atmospheric icing occurs in the atmosphere when water droplets suspended in air freeze on objects they come in contact with.
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Avalanche
An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or mountain.
Azores
The Azores (Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira).
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Île Amsterdam
Île Amsterdam, also known as Amsterdam Island and New Amsterdam (Nouvelle-Amsterdam), is an island of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the southern Indian Ocean that together with neighbouring Île Saint-Paul to the south forms one of the five districts of the territory.
Île Saint-Paul
Île Saint-Paul (Saint Paul Island) is an island forming part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, TAAF) in the Indian Ocean, with an area of.
Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
Black ice
Black ice, sometimes called clear ice, is a coating of glaze ice on a surface, for example on streets or on lakes. Frost and Black ice are water ice.
Bog
A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
Cell (biology)
The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all forms of life.
Citrus
Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae.
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Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand
The Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand (CAA) (Māori: Te Mana Rererangi Tūmatanui o Aotearoa) is the government agency tasked with establishing civil aviation safety and security standards in New Zealand.
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Clear ice
Clear ice refers to a solid precipitation which forms when air temperature is between and and there are supercooled, relatively large drops of water (from freezing fog). Frost and Clear ice are water ice.
Cold hardening
Cold hardening is the physiological and biochemical process by which an organism prepares for cold weather.
Condensation
Condensation is the change of the state of matter from the gas phase into the liquid phase, and is the reverse of vaporization.
Contiguous United States
The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia of the United States of America in central North America.
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Cruciferous vegetables
Cruciferous vegetables are vegetables of the family Brassicaceae (also called Cruciferae) with many genera, species, and cultivars being raised for food production such as cauliflower, cabbage, kale, garden cress, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mustard plant and similar green leaf vegetables.
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Cryobiology
Cryobiology is the branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living things within Earth's cryosphere or in science.
Crystal
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.
Crystal growth
A crystal is a solid material whose constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions.
Dülmen
Dülmen is a town in the district of Coesfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Ded Moroz
Ded Moroz, or Morozko (translit), is a legendary figure similar to Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, and Santa Claus who has his roots in Slavic mythology. The tradition of Ded Moroz is mostly spread in East Slavic countries and is a significant part of Russian culture. At the beginning of the Soviet era, communist authorities banned Ded Moroz.
Dendrite (crystal)
A crystal dendrite is a crystal that develops with a typical multi-branching form, resembling a fractal.
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Deposition (phase transition)
Deposition is the phase transition in which gas transforms into solid without passing through the liquid phase.
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Depth hoar
Depth hoar, also called sugar snow or temperature gradient snow (or TG snow), are large snow-crystals occurring at the base of a snowpack that form when uprising water vapor deposits, or desublimates, onto existing snow crystals.
Dew
Dew is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening due to condensation. Frost and Dew are Psychrometrics.
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Dew point
The dew point of a given body of air is the temperature to which it must be cooled to become saturated with water vapor. Frost and dew point are Psychrometrics.
Dust bunny
Dust bunnies (or dustbunnies) are small clumps of dust that form under furniture and in corners that are not cleaned regularly.
East Java
East Java (Jawa Timur, Jawi Wetan, Jhâbâ Tèmor) is a province of Indonesia located in the easternmost third of Java island.
Emissivity
The emissivity of the surface of a material is its effectiveness in emitting energy as thermal radiation.
Enthalpy of fusion
In thermodynamics, the enthalpy of fusion of a substance, also known as (latent) heat of fusion, is the change in its enthalpy resulting from providing energy, typically heat, to a specific quantity of the substance to change its state from a solid to a liquid, at constant pressure.
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European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.
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Farmer
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.
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Florida Keys
The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States.
Fractal
In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales, usually having a fractal dimension strictly exceeding the topological dimension.
Fractal dimension
In mathematics, a fractal dimension is a term invoked in the science of geometry to provide a rational statistical index of complexity detail in a pattern.
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Freezing
Freezing is a phase transition in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point.
Freezing air temperature
Freezing, available online or frost occurs when the air temperature falls below the freezing point of water (0 °C, 32 °F, 273 K).
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Frost crack
Frost crack or Southwest canker is a form of tree bark damage sometimes found on thin barked trees, visible as vertical fractures on the southerly facing surfaces of tree trunks.
Frost heaving
Frost heaving (or a frost heave) is an upwards swelling of soil during freezing conditions caused by an increasing presence of ice as it grows towards the surface, upwards from the depth in the soil where freezing temperatures have penetrated into the soil (the freezing front or freezing boundary). Frost and frost heaving are frost and rime.
Frost line
The frost line—also known as frost depth or freezing depth—is most commonly the depth to which the groundwater in soil is expected to freeze.
Frostbite
Frostbite is a skin injury that occurs when someone is exposed to extremely low temperatures, causing the freezing of the skin or other tissues, commonly affecting the fingers, toes, nose, ears, cheeks and chin areas.
Gas
Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter.
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Greater Western Sydney
Greater Western Sydney (GWS) is a large region of the metropolitan area of Greater Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia that generally embraces the north-west, south-west, central-west, far western and the Blue Mountains sub-regions within Sydney's metropolitan area and encompasses 11 local government areas: Blacktown, Blue Mountains, Camden, Campbelltown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Hawkesbury, Liverpool, Parramatta, Penrith and Wollondilly.
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Ground frost
Ground frost refers to the various coverings of ice produced by the direct deposition of water vapor on objects and trees, whose surfaces have a temperature below the freezing point of water (0 °C, 32 °F).
Hardiness zone
A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants.
Helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
Hosta
Hosta (syn. Funkia) is a genus of plants commonly known as hostas, plantain lilies and occasionally by the Japanese name gibōshi.
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Humidity
Humidity is the concentration of water vapor present in the air. Frost and Humidity are Psychrometrics.
Ice
Ice is water that is frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 °C, 32 °F, or 273.15 K. It occurs naturally on Earth, on other planets, in Oort cloud objects, and as interstellar ice. Frost and ice are water ice.
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Ice crystal
Ice crystals are solid ice in symmetrical shapes including hexagonal columns, hexagonal plates, and dendritic crystals. Frost and ice crystal are water ice.
Ice fog
Ice fog is a type of fog consisting of fine ice crystals suspended in the air.
Ice nucleus
An ice nucleus, also known as an ice nucleating particle (INP), is a particle which acts as the nucleus for the formation of an ice crystal in the atmosphere.
Ice-minus bacteria
Ice-minus bacteria is a common name given to a variant of the common bacterium Pseudomonas syringae (P. syringae).
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Icing (nautical)
Icing on ships is a serious hazard where cold temperatures (below about) combined with high wind speed (typically force 8 or above on the Beaufort scale) result in spray blown off the sea freezing immediately on contact with the ship.
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Inversion (meteorology)
In meteorology, an inversion (or temperature inversion) is a phenomenon in which a layer of warmer air overlies cooler air.
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Jack Frost
Jack Frost is a personification of frost, ice, snow, sleet, winter, and freezing cold.
Jones & Bartlett Learning
Jones & Bartlett Learning, a division of Ascend Learning, is a scholarly publisher.
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Julian Alps
The Julian Alps (Julijske Alpe, Alpi Giulie,,, Julische Alpen) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps that stretch from northeastern Italy to Slovenia, where they rise to 2,864 m at Mount Triglav, the highest peak in Slovenia.
Lake Siskiyou
Lake Siskiyou is a reservoir formed by Box Canyon Dam NPDP Dam Directory.
Latent heat
Latent heat (also known as latent energy or heat of transformation) is energy released or absorbed, by a body or a thermodynamic system, during a constant-temperature process—usually a first-order phase transition, like melting or condensation.
Liquid
A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a nearly constant volume independent of pressure.
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Lists of indigenous peoples of Russia
Lists of indigenous peoples of Russia cover the indigenous ethnic groups in Russia other than Russians.
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Marlborough District
Marlborough District or the Marlborough Region (or Tauihu), commonly known simply as Marlborough, is one of the 16 regions of New Zealand, located on the northeast of the South Island.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
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Mars Express
Mars Express is a space exploration mission being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA).
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
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Molar absorption coefficient
In chemistry, the molar absorption coefficient or molar attenuation coefficient is a measurement of how strongly a chemical species absorbs, and thereby attenuates, light at a given wavelength.
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Mordvins
Mordvins (also Mordvinians, Mordovians; Mordvins; no equivalents in Moksha and Erzya) is an official term used in the Russian Federation to refer both to Erzyas and Mokshas since 1928.
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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Needle ice
Needle ice is a needle-shaped column of ice formed by groundwater. Frost and needle ice are water ice.
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states, it is also the most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of, it is the fourth-largest German state by size.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
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Nucleation
In thermodynamics, nucleation is the first step in the formation of either a new thermodynamic phase or structure via self-assembly or self-organization within a substance or mixture.
Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
Olympus Mons
Olympus Mons (Mount Olympus) is a large shield volcano on Mars.
Permafrost
Permafrost is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below for two years or more: the oldest permafrost had been continuously frozen for around 700,000 years. Frost and permafrost are water ice.
Phase transition
In physics, chemistry, and other related fields like biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another.
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Pseudomonas syringae
Pseudomonas syringae is a rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacterium with polar flagella.
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Ranu Pani
Ranu Pani or Ranupani is a volcanic lake in Ranu Pani Village, Senduro District, Lumajang Regency, East Java.
Refrigeration
Refrigeration is any of various types of cooling of a space, substance, or system to lower and/or maintain its temperature below the ambient one (while the removed heat is ejected to a place of higher temperature).
Seed crystal
A seed crystal is a small piece of single crystal or polycrystal material from which a large crystal of typically the same material is grown in a laboratory.
Selective inverted sink
The selective inverted sink or SIS is a device used by farmers to protect plants from frost, developed by Uruguayan Rafael Guarga in the late 1990s.
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Solanaceae
The Solanaceae, or the nightshades, are a family of flowering plants that ranges from annual and perennial herbs to vines, lianas, epiphytes, shrubs, and trees, and includes a number of agricultural crops, medicinal plants, spices, weeds, and ornamentals.
Solid
Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter along with liquid, gas, and plasma.
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Specific heat capacity
In thermodynamics, the specific heat capacity (symbol) of a substance is the amount of heat that must be added to one unit of mass of the substance in order to cause an increase of one unit in temperature.
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.
Supercooling
Supercooling, also known as undercooling, is the process of lowering the temperature of a liquid below its freezing point without it becoming a solid.
Supersaturation
In physical chemistry, supersaturation occurs with a solution when the concentration of a solute exceeds the concentration specified by the value of solubility at equilibrium.
Surface roughness
Surface roughness can be regarded as the quality of a surface of not being smooth and it is hence linked to human (haptic) perception of the surface texture. From a mathematical perspective it is related to the spatial variability structure of surfaces, and inherently it is a multiscale property. It has different interpretations and definitions depending on the disciplines considered.
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
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Taiga
Taiga (p), also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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The Mountaineers (club)
The Mountaineers is an alpine club in the US state of Washington.
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Thermal insulation
Thermal insulation is the reduction of heat transfer (i.e., the transfer of thermal energy between objects of differing temperature) between objects in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence.
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Tissue (biology)
In biology, tissue is an assembly of similar cells and their extracellular matrix from the same embryonic origin that together carry out a specific function.
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Trace Gas Orbiter
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO or ExoMars Orbiter) is a collaborative project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Roscosmos agency that sent an atmospheric research orbiter and the ''Schiaparelli'' demonstration lander to Mars in 2016 as part of the European-led ExoMars programme.
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Transparency and translucency
In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light.
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Tree wrap
A tree wrap or tree wrapping is a wrap of garden tree saplings, roses, and other delicate plants to protect them from frost damage (e.g. frost cracks or complete death).
Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha, colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
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Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.
Vineyard
A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes, and non-alcoholic grape juice.
Water vapor
Water vapor, water vapour or aqueous vapor is the gaseous phase of water. Frost and water vapor are Psychrometrics.
Wetting
Wetting is the ability of a liquid to displace gas to maintain contact with a solid surface, resulting from intermolecular interactions when the two are brought together.
Wind
Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface.
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Wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy.
Windward and leeward
In geography and seamanship, windward and leeward are directions relative to the wind.
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Yukimarimo
Yukimarimo are balls of fine frost formed at low temperatures on the Antarctic plateau during weak wind conditions. Frost and Yukimarimo are frost and rime.
See also
Frost and rime
- Frost
- Frost flower
- Frost flower (sea ice)
- Frost heaving
- Hair ice
- Icing conditions
- Rime ice
- Rimed snow
- Yukimarimo
Psychrometrics
- Arden Buck equation
- Dew
- Dew point
- Diamond dust
- Evaporative cooler
- Fog
- Frost
- Haze
- Humidity
- Humidor
- Hygrometer
- Kam Controls
- Mist
- Moisture analysis
- Moisture vapor transmission rate
- Psychrometrics
- Sigma heat
- Smog
- Turbine inlet air cooling
- Vapor barrier
- Vapour-pressure deficit
- Water vapor
References
Also known as Advection frost, Black frost, Fern frost, Flood frost, Frost damage (biology), Frost deity, Frost feather, Frost pocket, Frost pockets, Hard frost, Hoar frost, Hoarfrost, Ice flowers, Radiation frost, Surface hoar, White frost, Wind frost, Window frost.