Katabatic Winds

Katabatic definition of a wind or air current moving downward or down a slope.

Katabatic winds. Katabatic winds exist in many parts of the World and there are many different names for katabatic winds depending where they are located and how they are formed. Kata- cata- batos going. Katabatic wind also called downslope wind or gravity wind wind that blows down a slope because of gravity.

These katabatic winds roar toward the coast of Antarctica. It was toasty warm. Katabatic wind from the Greek.

Such winds are sometimes also called fall winds. Most widely used in mountain meteorology to denote a downslope flow driven by cooling at the slope surface during periods of light larger-scale winds. Greek katabatikos pertaining to descent from katabatos descending.

Relating to or being a wind produced by the flow of cold dense air down a slope as of a mountain or glacier in an area subject to radiational. Phasing This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. Fairly quiet conditions turn instantaneously with katabatic winds reaching speeds of 15 to 20 meters per second 50 to 66 ftsec.

A Katabatic wind from the Greek word katabatikos meaning going downhill is the technical name for a drainage wind a wind that carries high density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity. We went to Big Bend. See g w ā- in Indo-European roots American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Fifth Edition.

The air at X adjacent to the slope becoming cooler and therefore denser than the air which is further away at the same level Y starts sliding down because of the gravitational force forming the katabatic wind in Greek kata means down and biano. Katabatic winds exist in many parts of the World and there are many different names for katabatic winds depending where they are located and how they are formed. The air in contact with these highlands is thus also cooled and it becomes denser than the air at the same elevation but away from the slope.