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catabatic - of an air current or wind; moving downward or down a slope because of cooling especially at night

meteorology - the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather)

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He will face up to 100mph catabatic storms, temperatures plunging close to -50C and days on end with minimal communication and 10-milea-day treks.

Polar extremes as tourism chief takes time off for South Pole trek; He took on the challenge of establishing a major tourist resort in Wales at the height of the recession - and won. Now William McNamara is set for his biggest test - following in Captain Scott's Antarctic footsteps, as Graham Henry reveals

Sir Jeremy Morse comments on Susan Thorpe's "Odd One Out": "Words which fail to be palindromes by one letter are reasonably easy to find up to a length of nine letters, as CATABATIC, DETONATED, POSSESSOR.

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As the anonymous reviewer for Helios notes, Stone's World Trade Center (2005) contains decided, and sometimes very literal, catabatic elements.

Dionysian themes and imagery in Oliver Stone's Alexander

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