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Katabatic winds

LC control no.sh 99004718
LC classificationQC939.K37
Topical headingKatabatic winds
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Variant(s)Drainage winds
Gravity winds
See alsoWinds
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Found inWork cat.: 98198000: Heinemann, G. Katabatic wind and boundary layer front ... 1998.
McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech. (gravity wind: [Meterol] a wind (or component thereof) directed down the slope of an incline and caused by greater air density near the slope than at the same levels some distance horizontally from the slope; also known as drainage wind, katabatic wind)
Concise dict. physics (katabatic wind: a wind caused by the downward motion of air)