katabatic

alternative catabatic

1. not comparableclimatologyDownslope on a mountainside.

   Penguin colonies that number in millions; nights that run into days, and days that run into nights; katabatic winds that scream down the ice sheets at a terrifying 180 miles per hour, and then remain equally terrifyingly still.

   2006 February 24, Tishani Doshi, “Meanwhile: The long view from Antarctica”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2023

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   At the field camp, paper-thin tents shudder beneath katabatic blasts of freezing wind, stoves sputter a stingy flame, and a few trudging specks haul shovels through a cold world where extra food and equipment cannot be bought at any price.

   2005, Nicholas Johnson, chapter 3, in Big Dead Place, →ISBN

plural katabatics · alternative catabatic

1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of katabatic wind.