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What does katabatic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (meteorology, of airflow) Downslope on a mountainside.
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The bergs, driven towards the lake outlet by katabatic winds, become stranded as they move into shallower waters.
January 4th, 2010: The team leaves the camp at Balchen Fjella under strong katabatic winds.
This sea breeze tends to die down in the mid-evening and by midnight the northeasterly katabatic wind will have re-asserted itself.
The most extreme type of katabatic wind is found in the Antarctic where cold gusts of wind surge across the polar ice caps.
West of this location, winds and turbulence diminish rapidly except for extreme katabatic winds on sunny summer evenings.
The huts must stand up to the monster katabatic winds that reach up to 300 kph.

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