Usually means: Cold air descending down slopes.
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  1. katabatic wind: Vocabulary.com
  2. katabatic wind: Wiktionary
  3. katabatic wind: Dictionary.com
  4. Katabatic wind: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. katabatic wind: Rhymezone
  6. katabatic wind: FreeDictionary.org
  7. katabatic wind: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. katabatic wind: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. katabatic wind: Encyclopedia

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  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (katabatic wind)

noun:  (climatology) A drainage wind or a fall wind: a wind, such as the bora or Bohemian wind, which moves high density air from a higher elevation down an incline, due to the force of gravity.

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