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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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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 convenient features for anabatic and katabatic streams are the concepts of mountain-valley breezes.
Land and sea breezes are far more noticeable in Australia than anabatic and katabatic winds.
Like sea and land breezes, anabatic and katabatic winds are induced thermally.
January 4th, 2010: The team leaves the camp at Balchen Fjella under strong katabatic winds.
West of this location, winds and turbulence diminish rapidly except for extreme katabatic winds on sunny summer evenings.

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