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• GENERAL ICING TERMS AND ICING STATES: icing, atmospheric icing, in-cloud icing, precipitation icing, icing event, meteorological icing, instrumental icing, incubation time, ice accreation period, recovery time, ice accreation, icing problems
• TERMS RELATED TO FORMING OF ICE (PRE-ICING): wind, freezing rain, nucleation, supercooled water, wenzel state, Cassie-Baxter state, sea water freezing, sea spray icing, fog,
• TERMS RELATED TO ICE AND ICE FEATURES: ice type, ice feature, ice adhesion, wet snow, brine pockets- and channels, spongy ice, hoar frost, frost, rime, icicle, ice density, microroughness and nanoroughness,
• ABBREVIATIONS: SLD (supercooled large droplets), CC (cold climate), IC (icing climate), LTC (low temperature climate), LWC (liquid water content), MVD (median volume diameter), WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting), CFD (computational fluid dynamics), AEP (Annual Energy Production), IEA (International Energy Agency), HAWT (Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine), VAWT (Vertical Axis Wind Turbine), RPM (rotations per minute), SLIPS (slippery liquid infused porous surfaces)
• ICING ON SPECIFIC OBJECTS: icing on airplane wings, icing on ships, superstructure icing, icing on wind turbine blades, wind turbine in winter, icing on masts, icing on powerlines, icing on trucks, winter effects in railway traffic, track switches, derailment, power lines, overhead lines, pantograph, train brakes, offshore platforms
• ICE PREVENTION, ANTI-ICING AND DE-ICING METHODS: ice prevention, superhydrophobic surface, coating material, anti-freeze substances (railway traffic), railway traffic de-icing, railway traffic anti-icing, ice-phobic surfaces, de-icing chemicals (aviation), icephobic, manual ice removal, glycol, polyethylene lining, composite trailer, anti-icing, de-icing,
• ICE RESEARCH, TESTS AND MODELS: modelling of icing, modelling programs, ice adhesion test, icing wind tunnel, Makkonen´s model, Lozowski model, ice classes, T19IceLossMethod, LEWICE codes,
• SPACE BASED DATA: SAR imaging, GNSS reflectometry
• OTHER: wind turbines classification, wind turbine blade aerodynamics, rail gaps, track smoothness, frost heaving, track brittleness, heat flux, ice throw from wind turbine

Content A-Z

A-E

AEP (Annual Energy Production), anti-freeze substances (railway traffic), anti-icing, atmospheric icing, brine pockets- and channels, Cassie-Baxter state, CC (cold climate), CFD (computational fluid dynamics), coating material, composite trailer, de-icing, de-icing chemicals (aviation),

F-J

fog, freezing rain, frost, frost heaving, glycol, GNSS reflectometry, HAWT (Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine), heat flux, hoar frost, IC (icing climate), ice accreation, ice accreation period, ice adhesion, ice adhesion test, ice classes, ice density, ice feature, icephobic, ice-phobic surface, ice prevention, ice throw from wind turbine, ice type, icicle, icing, icing event, icing on airplane wings, icing on masts, icing on powerlines, icing on ships, icing on trucks, icing on wind turbine blades, icing problems, icing wind tunnel, IEA (International Energy Agency), in-cloud icing, incubation time, instrumental icing,

K-O

LEWICE codes, Lozowski model, LTC (low temperature climate), LWC (liquid water content), Makkonen´s model, manual ice removal, meteorological icing, microroughness and nanoroughness, modelling of icing, modelling programs, MVD (median volume diameter), nucleation, offshore platforms, power lines, overhead lines, pantograph,

P-T

polyethylene lining, precipitation icing, rail gaps, railway traffic anti-icing, railway traffic de-icing, recovery time, RPM (rotations per minute), rime, SAR imaging, sea spray icing, sea water freezing, SLD (supercooled large droplets), SLIPS (slippery liquid infused porous surfaces), spongy ice, supercooled water, superhydrophobic surface, superstructure icing, track brittleness, track smoothness, track switches, derailment, train brakes, T19IceLossMethod,

U-Z

VAWT (Vertical Axis Wind Turbine), wenzel state, wet snow, wind, wind turbine blade aerodynamics, wind turbine in winter, wind turbines classification, winter effects in railway traffic, WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting)

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