mountain breeze

meteorology
Also known as: mountain wind

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description and cause

  • season
    In climate: Local wind systems

    …of such winds, known as mountain winds or breezes, is induced by differential heating or cooling along mountain slopes. During the day, solar heating of the sunlit slopes causes the overlying air to move upslope. These winds are also called anabatic flow. At night, as the slopes cool, the direction…

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strength of breeze

  • When the valley floor warms during the day, warm air rises up the slopes of surrounding mountains and hills to create a valley breeze. At night, denser cool air slides down the slopes to settle in the valley, producing a mountain breeze.
    In breeze

    …drain into the valley (mountain breeze). Usually light, a mountain breeze may become a violent, gusty wind when it is funneled through a narrow gorge into which cold air has drained from many higher valleys. A glacier breeze is a draft of cold air that is cooled by contact…

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