Glacier Wind

glacier wind

[′glā·shər ‚wind] (meteorology) A shallow gravity wind along the icy surface of a glacier, caused by the temperature difference between the air in contact with the glacier and free air at the same altitude.

Glacier Wind

 

a wind blowing over a glacier and moving in the direction of the glacier’s flow. The wind is caused by the cooling of air by the ice surface and is observed over many large glaciers. It assumes the character of run-off winds over the glacier plateaus of Antarctica and Greenland.