A katabatic wind (named from Ancient Greek κατάβασις (katábasis) 'descent') carries high-density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force...

Berg wind (from Afrikaans berg "mountain" + wind "wind", i.e. a mountain wind) is the South African name for a katabatic wind: a hot dry wind blowing down...

The Katabatic Wind (released 2011 in Oslo, Norway by the label Bolage – BLGCD013) is the debut solo piano album by the mini Brass Band Magic Pocket. The...

northerly to north-easterly katabatic wind in areas near the Adriatic Sea. Similar nomenclature is used for north-eastern winds in other littoral areas of...

wind speed of 80 kilometres (50 mi) per hour. Storms are caused by katabatic wind, a concentrated flow of cold air moving along the steep surface of the...

unexplained deaths, including animal attacks, hypothermia, an avalanche, katabatic winds, infrasound-induced panic, military involvement, or some combination...

This is a list of names given to winds local to specific regions. Berg wind, a seasonal katabatic wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high...

warmer than the sea. It is thus a mild sea-to-coast wind, unlike the mistral. The strong katabatic wind there is the northeastern bora. In Greece, it is...

quantitative measurements of katabatic winds are rarely available, they remain a highly sought-after element for upcoming missions. Katabatic jumps are also common...

climate Anabatic wind Chinook wind Föhn cloud Katabatic winds Lee wave Meteorology McKnight, TL & Hess, Darrel (2000). "Foehn/Chinook Winds". In Physical...

transmission line in the Feather River Canyon failed during strong katabatic winds. Those winds rapidly drove the Camp Fire through the communities of Concow...

Borá, a city in the São Paulo state in Brazil Bora (wind), a north to north-eastern katabatic wind in areas near the Adriatic Sea. Bora River, a name for...

detrimental to the maximum downhill speed of cyclists. Conversely, katabatic winds are down-slope winds, frequently produced at night by the opposite effect, the...

occasionally at much higher speeds. Contrast katabatic wind. anemometer A scientific instrument used to measure wind speed. annular tropical cyclone anticyclone...

strong local wind across the Kanto Plain on the Pacific Ocean side of central Honshu. This term identifies a katabatic wind. The Oroshi wind is mentioned...

localized winds that occur one after the other on a daily cycle. They are an example of anabatic and katabatic winds occurring at local scales. These winds are...

altogether. A latent heat polynya is formed through the action of katabatic winds, which act to drive ice away from a fixed boundary such as a coastline...

tends to create the most intense Santa Ana winds. While the Santa Anas are katabatic, they are not Föhn winds. These result from precipitation on the windward...

Antarctica, although they have had no ice for thousands of years due to katabatic wind but contain ephemeral streams and hypersaline lakes characteristic of...

Weather fronts rarely penetrate far into the continent, because of the katabatic winds. Most of Antarctica has an ice-cap climate (Köppen classification EF)...

Maloja Wind-like effects. They are the only valleys in the United States where these effects have been documented. Anabatic wind Katabatic wind Oliver...

mountains in high latitudes. Thus the williwaw is considered a type of katabatic wind. Gore Vidal's first novel, Williwaw (1946), based on a ship in the Aleutian...

A piteraq is a cold katabatic wind which originates on the Greenlandic icecap and sweeps down the east coast. The word "piteraq" means "that which attacks...

local katabatic winds caused by the unique geography, called williwaws. As the williwaws blew against the starboard side of the vessel, the winds were...

most massive mountain range, the Himalayas bar the influx of frigid katabatic winds from the icy Tibetan Plateau and northerly Central Asia. Most of North...

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The Bohemian wind or böhm (‹See Tfd›German: Böhmwind or Böhmischer Wind) is a katabatic downslope wind, which occurs in East Bavaria, eastern Upper Franconia...

Katabasis, a trip to the underworld or the land of the dead Katabatic wind, cold winds that come from glacial mountains downward Katabasia, a type of...

across-mountain mean sea level pressure and potential temperature differences. Katabatic wind "Kossava". Glossary of Meteorology, Second Edition. American Meteorological...

denser than the air further afield and sinks downslope producing a katabatic wind. When the cold air reaches a relatively flat area or a valley, it slows...