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anabatic wind

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

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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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

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  • Chinese Mandarin: 上坡風 /上坡风 (shàngpōfēng) — upslope wind
  • Finnish: nousutuuli — upslope wind
  • Marathi: आरोही वारा (ārohī vārā) — upslope wind