| 单词 | föhn wind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasföhn wind 2. Also foehn. A warm dry katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain range in response to air moving across the range. Also föhn wind. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > hot or warm wind > hot or warm and dry > katabatic föhn1889 1889 W. Ferrel Pop. Treat. Winds vi. 333 Temporary foehns are produced whenever there is a cyclone so situated as to draw a current of air over a high mountain range. 1910 Encycl. Brit. VI. 523/2 Greenland föhn winds..blow down warm and dry, raising the temperature even 30° or 40° above the winter mean, and melting the snow. 1951 F. Defant in T. F. Malone Compend. Meteorol. 667/1 In North America the foehn, known as the chinook, has a climatic influence on a very wide belt east of the Rocky Mountains. 1957 J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era II. xxxi. 678 Foehn winds, varying in strength, duration and range as in modern Greenland..probably blew throughout the year. < as lemmas |
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