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In medicine, the removal or destruction of a body part or tissue or its function. Ablation may be performed by surgery, hormones, drugs, radiofrequency, heat, or other methods.
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1. All processes that remove snow, ice, or water from a glacier, snowfield, etc.; in this sense, the opposite of accumulation. These processes include melting, evaporation, calving, wind erosion, and an avalanche. Air temperature is the dominant factor in controlling ablation, precipitation amounts exercising only secondary control. During the ablation season (usually summer), an ablation rate of about 2 mm h -1 is typical of glaciers in a temperate climate. 2. ...
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Abbreviation for atmospheric boundary layer.
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Removal of material by melting and/or burning away.
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The combined process (such as, sublimation, melting or evaporation) which removes ice and/or snow from the surface of a glacier, snowfield, etc.
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