Snow Cover

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Snow Cover is the distribution of snow on the ground. The areal extent of ground covered by the snow. It is usually expressed as a percent of the total area of a given region. Snow cover in Scandinavia - photo from NASA [1]

The distribution of snow on the ground.

The areal extent of ground covered by the snow. It is usually expressed as a percent of the total area of a given region.

[edit] Also See

• Frozen Ground
• Melt Freeze Metamorphism
• Constructive metamorphosis
• Deconstructive metamorphosis
• Cryosphere
• What Affects Frozen Ground
• Climate
• Snow line
• Tree line
• Frost line
• Snow and Weather Glossary
• Snow and Course Preparation
• Seasonally frozen ground
• What Affects Frozen Ground
• What is the Cryosphere
• Seasonally frozen
• Peat
• Alpine climate
• Historical Worldwide Climate and Weather

[edit] Reference

1. Wikipedia Snow Cover [2]

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