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Mountain breeze

Term · Meteorology and atmospheric science · MLC-T-MET-007423

A local wind system that flows down mountain slopes into valleys during the nighttime hours. It forms as the air on the slopes cools more rapidly than the air in the valley, becoming denser and flowing downslope under gravity. This breeze is part of the diurnal mountain-valley wind circulation.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-MET-007423
FieldMeteorology and atmospheric science
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-MET-007423",
  "term": "Mountain breeze",
  "field": "Meteorology and atmospheric science",
  "definition": "A local wind system that flows down mountain slopes into valleys during the nighttime hours. It forms as the air on the slopes cools more rapidly than the air in the valley, becoming denser and flowing downslope under gravity. This breeze is part of the diurnal mountain-valley wind circulation.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/meteorology/mountain-breeze/"
}

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