Névé on a glacier that survives the year's ablation season. With time much of the firn is transformed into glacial ice.

In hydrologic terms, old snow on top of glaciers, granular and compact and not yet converted into ice. It is a transitional stage between snow and ice. Also called Neve.

Granular ice formed by the recrystallization of snow. Intermediate between snow and glacier ice.

"consolidated snow, the raw material of glaciers," 1839, literally "last year's snow, névé," from German Firn, from Swiss dialectal firn "of last year," from Middle [..]

grainy ice that forms glaciers. Also called neve.

Old snow that has become granular and compacted (dense) as the result of various surface metamorphoses, mainly melting and refreezing but also including sublimation. The resulting particles are genera [..]

snow compacted into glacier ice (firnification

partially packed snow which lasts through at least one summer. The partial melting of the upper layer increases the density of the snow below. After a couple of decades of compaction and the addition [..]

The intermediate "granular" stage which occurs during the conversion of snow to glacial ice.

(?) the imperfectly consolidated granular snow found on glaciers.

Partially compacted snow that survives the summer melting season.

Material that is transitional between snow and glacier ice. It is formed from snow after passing through one summer melt season and becomes glacier ice after its permeability to liquid water falls to zero.

Partially-compacted névé, a type of snow that has been left over from past seasons and has been recrystallized into a substance denser than névé. It is ice that is at an intermediate stage between sno [..]

Partially compacted snow that survives the summer melting season. more details...

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Granular, porous snow that has endured a summer without melting and will transform into glacial ice. In greenland this layer approaches 80 meters thick and can act as a storage place for meltwater per [..]

Old snow which has recrystallized into a dense material. Unlike snow, the particles are to some extent joined together; but, unlike ice, the air spaces in it still connect with each other.

In hydrologic terms, old snow on top of glaciers, granular and compact and not yet converted into ice. It is a transitional stage between snow and ice. Also called Neve.

a loose, permeable, granular material that is more than a year old and that is the transition between snow and glacier ice

In hydrologic terms, old snow on top of glaciers, granular and compact and not yet converted into ice. It is a transitional stage between snow and ice. Also called Neve.

A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles and thus is made of numerous small icy grains, though it is not nearly as saturated with water as snow-cone slush is; can [..]

Granular, partially consolidated snow that has passed through one summer melt season, but is not yet glacial ice.