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• Surface freezing — is the appearance of long range crystalline order in a near surface layer of a liquid. The surface freezing effect is opposite to a far more common surface melting, or premelting. Surface Freezing was experimentally discovered in melts of alkanes …   Wikipedia

• Freezing rain — is a type of precipitation that begins as snow at higher altitude, falling from a cloud towards earth, melts completely on its way down while passing through a layer of air above freezing temperature, and then encounters a layer below freezing at …   Wikipedia

• Surface weather observation — Surface weather observations are the fundamental data used for safety as well as climatological reasons to forecast weather and issue warnings worldwide. [Office of the Federal Coordinator of Meteorology. [http://www.ofcm.gov/fmh 1/pdf/B CH2.pdf… …   Wikipedia

• Freezing drizzle — is drizzle that freezes on contact with the ground or an object at or near the surface. Its METAR code is FZDZ. When such drops land, it creates an icy layer of glaze. Freezing drizzle alone does not generally result in significant ice… …   Wikipedia

• freezing — ► ADJECTIVE 1) having a temperature below 0°C. 2) informal very cold. 3) (of fog or rain) consisting of droplets which freeze rapidly on contact with a surface. ► NOUN ▪ the freezing point of water (0°C) …   English terms dictionary

• Freezing — For freezing as a method of food preservation, see frozen food. For a TV series of the same name, see Freezing (TV series). For freezing in terms of computers, see hang (computing) In physics and chemistry, freezing is the process whereby a… …   Wikipedia

• freezing drizzle — A Rain of very light intensity, composed of fine droplets of less than 0.5 mm diameter, which freeze on impact with the ground, objects on the earth’s surface, or aircraft in flight. The symbol for slight freezing drizzle on weather maps is , and …   Aviation dictionary

• freezing process — noun Etymology: freezing from gerund of freeze (I) 1. : a process of excavating shafts or tunnels in unstable material (as quicksand) by freezing an area larger than the intended work and excavating in the frozen earth 2. : a method of sinking a… …   Useful english dictionary

• freezing — adjective 1》 below 0°C.     ↘very cold. 2》 (of fog or rain) consisting of droplets which freeze rapidly on contact with a surface. noun the freezing point of water (0°C) …   English new terms dictionary

• glacier — glaciered, adj. /glay sheuhr/, n. an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of… …   Universalium

• Premelting — Premelting, also known as surface melting, is the existence of liquid like thin film coating the surface of a crystalline solid below its melting point. Also can occur in crystal volume and enhance diffusion.First postulated by prominent British… …   Wikipedia