mountain wind
mountain wind (mountain breeze) Term commonly used to describe a katabatic wind or breeze and its counterpart, the up-slope anabatic wind or breeze occurring on warm days over heated mountain slopes.
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katabatic wind , katabatic wind(drainage wind, mountain breeze) A generic term for the wind that occurs when cold, dense air, chilled by radiation cooling, usually at… Fohn Wind , föhn wind(foehn wind) A generic term for warm, dry winds in the lee of a mountain range. It was originally used in the European Alps. After cooling o… Beaufort Wind Scale , In 1805, to standardize nautical observations, Sir Francis Beaufort , an Irish hydrographer and member of the British Admiralty, created a scale for… Wind , Wind
Wind refers to any flow of air above Earth's surface in a roughly horizontal direction. A wind is always named according to the direction from w… Mountain beaver , mountain beaver See APLODONTIDAE. Wind Tunnel , wind tun·nel / wind/ • n. a tunnel-like apparatus for producing an airstream of known velocity past models of aircraft, buildings, etc., in order to…
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