drainage wind"Cold-air-runoff winds that are produced when air in contact with terrain surfaces is cooled and flows downslope and/or downvalley.
DRAINAGE WIND A katabatic wind, it is caused by the cooling of air along the slopes of a mountain. Related term: mountain breeze
DRIFTING SNOW Snow particles blown from the ground by the wind to a height of less than six feet.
A valley or drainage wind formed as cold dense air drains down a valley. Examples are the Mistral in southern France and the strong winds blowing of the high Antarctic plateaux.
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When this air is cold or cool, it is called a drainage wind, and regionally it may be known as a mountain breeze or glacier wind. The opposite of an anabatic wind.
Katabatic and Anabatic Winds Katabatic winds (taken from the Greek word "katabatikos," meaning "to go down") are sometimes called "gravity winds," "drainage winds," "mountain winds," or "glacier winds.
Also called drainage wind and sometimes called katabatic wind. Gray body A hypothetical body which absorbs some constant fraction, between zero and one, of all electromagnetic radiation incident upon it, ...
 See also: Surface, Air, Katabatic, Wind, Katabatic Wind
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