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influenced also by melting and re-freezing of ice and by katabatic winds. “The ice is quite thin here, as evidenced by other outcrops of rock nearby, so the influence of the bed on ice flow will ...

Geography and gravity combine here to unleash powerful katabatic winds—dense waves of cold air that rush down mountain corridors like avalanches tumbling toward the sea. The next blast hits.

At the same time, intense winds whipped snow from the surrounding ice sheet, adding streams of white across the glacier. This ...

The most spectacular of these clouds have been seen during wildfires in California and Yellowstone National Park. A generic term used for downslope winds, katabatic wind originates at high elevations ...