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Preferred term

snow depth

Type

snow depth

Definition

The vertical height of frozen precipitation on the ground: For this purpose, frozen precipitation includes ice pellets, glaze, hail, any combination of these, and sheet ice formed directly or indirectly from precipitation

Broader concept

variable

Note

[source of definition ] http://meteorology.geography-dictionary.org/Meteorology-and-Weather-Dictionary/" , "[controlled by ] Heikki Hamalainen

Scope note

US LTER controlled vocabulary

Creator

herbert.schentz@umweltbundesamt.at

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/22240

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Created 3/31/16, last modified 6/8/24

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