Part-7: Local Winds
  
Rev 10-04-2001
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LOCAL WIND SYSTEMS

  • Mountain-valley

  • Sea-land

    • Sea-to-land (day), land-to-sea (night) breezes and pressure gradients  

  • Valley-to-mountain and Mountain-to-valley breezes

  • Chinook winds flowing downslope from mountain ridges

  • Snow eaters in Colorado

  • Santa Ana winds in southern California

  • Gravity/Drainage winds off of high mountain or plateau snow and ice fields

January: Winter Monsoon (Trade Winds)

July:  Summer Monsoon (Reversed Trade Winds)
Heavy Precipitation; Enhanced by Topographic Uplift

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