"anabatic wind" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: anabatic winds [plural]
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  1. (physics, meteorology) An upslope wind; usually applied only when the wind is blowing up a hill or mountain as a result of local surface heating and apart from the effects of the larger scale circulation; the opposite of katabatic wind. The most common type anabatic is the valley wind. Wikipedia link: anabatic wind Categories (topical): Meteorology, Physics Translations (upslope wind): 上坡風 (Chinese Mandarin), 上坡风 (shàngpōfēng) (Chinese Mandarin), nousutuuli (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-anabatic_wind-en-noun-y~Ptdogn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

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