anabatic


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
anabatic /ˌanəˈbatɪk/
adjective Meteorology (of a wind) caused by local upward motion of warm air.
– origin early 20th cent.: from Gk anabatikos, from anabatēs ‘a person who ascends’.
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