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