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  • Sastruga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Sastrugi or zastrugi are sharp irregular grooves or ridges formed on a snow surface by wind erosion and deposition , and found in polar and temperate snow regions.
  • AMS Glossary

    The Russian word (zastrugi) is a collective noun and lacks a singular form. An individual ridge in a field of sastrugi has been called a sastruga in some English-language ...
  • AMS Glossary

    The Russian word (zastrugi) is a collective noun and lacks a singular form. An individual ridge in a field of sastrugi has been called a sastruga in some English-language articles
  • TBS Theses and Research Paper Publication 56

    ... phenomena by precise native terms is the confounding of surface sculpturings of tundra snow (upsik) and drifting snow (siqoq) under the words "skavler" (Norwegian) or "zastrugi ...
  • zayin - definition of zayin by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus ...

    Hebraic alphabet , Hebrew alphabet , Hebrew script - a Semitic alphabet used since the ... zastrugi Zati Zatopek Zauschneria Zauschneria californica zax Zayat zayin zazen
  • NSA Word of the Day

    Back Forward. December 28th, 2004: ZASTRUGI. Definition: ZASTRUGA*ZASTRUGI n sastruga. Anagrams: (none) Hooks: (none) Ana-hooks: zigGurats 'Typos': sastrugi zastruga
  • snow - Wiktionary

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate ... nival; niveous; penitentes; quinzee , quinzhee; rain; sastruga , sastrugi , zastruga , zastrugi; skiing; sleet ...
  • Photos from Alaska geographic regions: Arctic, interior, southeast ...

    Arctic Alaska region >> Zastrugi, wind blown snow on the arctic tundra
  • sastrugi - Definitions from Dictionary.com

    sastrugi (s?-str 'g?, sä'str?-) also zastrugi (s?-str 'g?, sä'str?-) Long, wavelike ridges of snow, formed by the wind and found on the polar plains.
  • Indigenous Knowledge in Disaster Management

    After blizzards the snow becomes hard and it shows the direction of the wind because zastrugi appear. When the weather settles down, you memorize the direction of the zastrugi ...

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