anabatic wind

anabatic wind

English

Noun

anabatic wind (plural anabatic winds)

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.

Translations

upslope wind

Chinese: Mandarin: 上坡風／上坡风 (shàngpōfēng) Finnish: nousutuuli

References

FM 3-6 Field Behavior of NBC Agents.