0 (of an area) always covered in snow: --
the permanent ice and snow of the nival belt
The nival zone is around 3000m in the Alps.
In a typical nival catchment, sediment flux from the freshet should arrive before the lake ice has effectively decayed.
At high altitudes there is a contraction of the nival zone, and loss of the dry scrub due to warmer, wetter conditions.
Vascular plant growth reaches its limit in the nival zone.
НОВИ ДУМИ
European
May 10, 2021
ДУМАТА НА ДЕНЯ
Shimmer
nival