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Convection causes it to rise, causing a valley breeze. At night, the process is reversed. During the night the slopes get cooled and the dense air descends into the valley as the mountain wind. [4] These breezes occur mostly during calm and clear weather. Mountain and valley breezes are other examples of local winds caused by an area's geography.
Mountain breeze may refer to: Mountain breeze and valley breeze, a localized pair of winds; Mountain Breeze, a generic store-brand citrus soda
At night, the sides of the hills cool through radiation of the heat. The air along the hills becomes cooler and denser, blowing down into the valley, drawn by gravity. This is known a mountain breeze. If the slopes are covered with ice and snow, the mountain breeze will blow during the day, carrying the cold dense air into the warmer, barren ...
Examples of katabatic winds include the downslope valley and mountain breezes, the piteraq winds of Greenland, the moderate Bora in the Adriatic, [2] the Bohemian Wind or Böhmwind in the Ore Mountains, the Santa Ana in southern California, the oroshi in Japan, or "the Barber" in New Zealand [3].
A hill or mountain top will be radiatively warmed by the Sun which in turn heats the air just above it. Air at a similar altitude over an adjacent valley or plain does not get warmed so much because of the greater distance to the ground below it.
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The Santa Anas are katabatic winds (Greek for "flowing downhill") arising in higher altitudes and blowing down towards sea level. [7] The National Weather Service defines Santa Ana winds as "a weather condition [in southern California] in which strong, hot, dust-bearing winds descend to the Pacific Coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions".