What Is Anabatic Wind?
An Anabatic Wind, from the Greek Anabatos, Verbal of Anabainein Meaning Moving Upward, Is a Warm Wind Which Blows up a Steep Slope or Mountain Side, Driven by...
An anabatic wind, from the Greek anabatos, verbal of anabainein meaning moving upward, is a warm wind which blows up a steep slope or mountain side, driven by heating of the slope through insolation. It is also known as an upslope flow. These winds typically occur during the daytime in calm sunny weather.
What do you mean by Anabatic wind?
Anabatic wind, also called upslope wind, local air current that blows up a hill or mountain slope facing the Sun. During the day, the Sun heats such a slope (and the air over it) faster than it does the adjacent atmosphere over a valley or a plain at the same altitude.
What are Anabatic and katabatic winds?
Anabatic Winds are upslope winds driven by warmer surface temperatures on a mountain slope than the surrounding air column. Katabatic winds are downslope winds created when the mountain surface is colder than the surrounding air and creates a down slope wind.
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