Bora A cold, northerly wind blowing from the Hungarian basin into the Adriatic Sea. See also FALL WIND.
Borasco A thunderstorm or violent squall, especially in the Mediterranean.
BORA WIND
It is a down-sloping wind along the Front Range, but it is different from the Chinook. Bora winds are very cold winds as they typically form just after a cold front has passed through the region.
Bora A cold katabatic wind that originates in Yugoslavia and flows onto the coastal plain of the Adriatic Sea.
Bowen ratio The ratio of energy available for sensible heating to energy available for latent heating.
Bora - In the region of the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, a cold, dry northeasterly wind that blows down from the mountains.
Bora
A regional downslope wind whose source is so cold that it is experienced as a cold wind, despite compression warming as it descends the lee slope of a mountain range.
Border Ice ...
The bora of the Dalmatian coast is another katabatic wind. The high plateaus are cold in winter, while the Adriatic is warm.
cyclonic bora"See bora scura.
cyclonic circulation"Fluid motion in the same sense as that of the earth, that is, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere, undefined at the equator.
Bora (northeasterly from eastern Europe to Italy)
Chinook (warm dry westerly off the Rocky Mountains)
Etesian (Greek name) or Meltemi (Turkish name) (northerly across Greece and Turkey)
Föhn (warm dry southerly off the northern side of the Alps) ...
Katabatic wind Any wind blowing down an incline; the opposite to anabatic wind. If the wind is warm, it is called a foehn; if cold, it may be a fall wind (bora), or a gravity wind (mountain wind).
A foehn wind that is channeled through a canyon as it descends the lee side of a mountain barrier.
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Browse Related Terms: Bora, Chinook, Foehn, Hydraulic Jump, Lee, Leeside Low ...
These may be further subdivided into barrier jets, gap winds, downslope windstorms, and include such local phenomena as the tehuantepecer, Santa Ana, foehn, mistral, and bora.
 See also: Air, High, Wind, Temperature, Surface
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