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Preferred term

katabatic wind  

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Definitions

  • 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; the nocturnal component of the along-slope wind systems.

Obsolete

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http://www.irandoc.acir/onto/irandoc/SWEETT01098

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