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katabatic wind en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A drainage wind or a fall wind: a wind, such as the bora or Bohemian wind, which moves high density air from a higher elevation down an incline, due to the force of gravity.
   • Penguin colonies that number in millions; nights that run into days, and days that run into nights; katabatic winds that scream down the ice sheets at a terrifying 180 miles per hour, and then remain equally terrifyingly still. 2006 February 24, Tishani Doshi, “Meanwhile: The long view from Antarctica”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2023:

Forms

Relateds

foehn · gravity wind · chinook · bergwind

Translations (6)

cmn 下降風 /下降风 (wind blowing down an incline) · cmn 下坡風 /下坡风 (wind blowing down an incline) · de Fallwind (wind blowing down an incline) · fr vent catabatique (wind blowing down an incline) · fi laskutuuli (wind blowing down an incline) · sv fallvind (wind blowing down an incline)