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Antarctica | Land of Extremes | coldest place
South Pole has the clearest, calmest weather anywhere on earth. Most of the wickedly high winds that everyone associates with the cold and the ice of the Antarctic are around the ... of the continent at the shores. These winds are so fast and so fierce they are world-famous and they have a special name, too - katabatic winds - and they can blow with hurricane ...
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Cyclonic Storms... Hurricanes Tornadoes Typhoons Funnel Clouds Water Spouts Katabatic Winds Thunderstorms/Electrical Storms Sky-fire.tv; Excellent resource on severe thunderstorms, record-breaking hail, hailstorms ...
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National Geographic Adventure Magazine: Archive
Reinhold Messner The Adventures of Tim Cahill: Cahill takes on katabatic winds Off the Face of the Earth: Holocaust survival in the underground labyrinths of western Ukraine ...
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National Geographic SeaLab: Antarctica-The Place
F (-89.2°C). >> WINDS: Hurricane-force winds, up to 200 miles (320 kilometers) an hour, batter the continent regularly. Called katabatic winds, they are pulled down the slope of the ...
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Natural Hazards.org: Investigate: Wind
In addition to their high speeds, katabatic winds can bring a dramatic temperature increase, sometimes by as much ... Colorado, katabatic winds are called Chinook winds. In southern California, they are referred to as Santa Ana winds. They are given the name Foehn Wind in the Alps of Europe. Katabatic Winds occur around ...
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World Winds Royal Meteorological Society UK, Weather and Climate
The MetLink Weather Project » Online Shop Local winds around the world As well as local winds and local weather phenomena, this list includes seasonal winds with local names Bise A cold dry ... cumulonimbus clouds and are almost always accompanied by lightning and thunder. They are initiated by katabatic winds and therefore tend to occur at night. Tehuantepecer A violent squally wind from the north ...
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Origins: Antarctica: Field Notes: Glaciers in the Desert
But the valleys stayed dry, beating the seemingly unstoppable flow of ice with wind; dry katabatic wind pulled down by gravity from the polar plateau, compressed and heated as it roared ... that I had heard about from Professor Andrew Fountain, the leader of this research project. Winds deposit sediments on the glacier, the sediments absorb sunlight and melt a hole in the ...
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Antarctica Geography 2000 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements,
Population, Social Statistics, Political System
Irrigated land: 0 sq km (1993) Natural hazards: katabatic (gravity-driven) winds blow coastward from the high interior; frequent blizzards form near the foot of the ...
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