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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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Like sea and land breezes, anabatic and katabatic winds are induced thermally.
A katabatic wind is a wind that is blowing down a slope, and an anabatic wind blows up a slope.
This sea breeze tends to die down in the mid-evening and by midnight the northeasterly katabatic wind will have re-asserted itself.
The cool night winds are called drainage winds, or katabatic winds, and are often quite gusty and usually stronger than anabatic winds.
January 4th, 2010: The team leaves the camp at Balchen Fjella under strong katabatic winds.
Under extreme cooling conditions, such as an underlying ice cover, the katabatic winds can develop to hazardous proportions.

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