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List of local winds

List of local winds is a earth science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of local winds rather than just read about it. In short: This is a list of names given to winds local to specific regions. Africa Berg wind, a seasonal katabatic wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high central plateau to the coast in South Africa.

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Reference excerpt

This is a list of names given to winds local to specific regions.

Africa Berg wind, a seasonal katabatic wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high central plateau to the coast in South Africa. Cape Doctor, often persistent and dry south-easterly wind that blows on the South African coast from spring to late summer (September to March in the southern hemisphere). Haboob, a sandstorm's fast moving wind which causes cold temperature over the area from where it passes. It mainly passes through Sudan. Harmattan, a dry wind that blows from the northeast, bringing dust from the Sahara south toward the Gulf of Guinea. Khamsin (khamaseen in Egypt) and similar winds named Haboob in the Sudan, Aajej in southern Morocco Ghibli in Libya and Tunisia, Harmattan in the western Maghreb, Sirocco, a south wind from the Sahara and Simoom in the Arabian Peninsula. Tsiokantimo, a strong southerly wind affecting southwestern Madagascar. It is generally cool and dry and is associated with high-pressure systems over the southern Indian Ocean. Alizé, a cool, moist northerly maritime wind that affects West and Central Africa, bringing relatively humid air from the Atlantic. It is essentially a regional trade wind with a local name. Sirocco , a hot, dry wind originating in the Sahara and moving north across North Africa into the Mediterranean. Over the sea it often becomes warm and humid before reaching southern Europe.

Asia

Central Asia Karaburan ("power storm") (a spring and winter katabatic wind of Central Asia) Khazri (cold, coastal gale-force wind of north Caspian Sea) Sukhovey (hot dry wind in the steppes, semi-deserts, and deserts of the Kazakhstan and the Caspian region)

Eastern Asia Buran (a wind which blows across eastern Asia. It is also known as Purga when over the tundra) Karakaze (strong cold mountain wind from Gunma Prefecture in Japan) East Asian Monsoon, known in China and Taiwan as meiyu (梅雨), in Korea as jangma (장마), and in Japan as tsuyu (梅雨) when advancing northwards in the spring and shurin (秋霖) when retreating southwards in autumn. Oroshi (颪) (strong katabatic wind across the Kanto Plain)

Northern Asia Barguzin wind (steady, strong wind on Lake Baikal in Russia) Sarma (cold strong wind at the western shore of Lake Baikal)

Southeast Asia Amihan (northeasterly wind across the Philippines) Habagat (southwesterly wind across the Philippines)

Southern Asia Elephanta (strong southerly or southeasterly wind on the Malabar coast of India) Norwester or Kalbaishakhi (local rain fall and thunder storm which occurs in India and Bangladesh) Kali Andhi or simply Andhi (the violent dust squalls that occur before monsoon in the northwestern parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain region of the Indian subcontinent) Loo (hot wind which blows over plains of India and Pakistan.) Mango showers (it is accompanied by thunderstorm bringing rainfall to Karnataka, Kerala and parts of Tamil Nadu during months of March and April.) Pachua (Westerlies) Monsoon of South Asia

Western Asia Gilavar (south wind in the Absheron Peninsula of the Azerbaijan Republic) N'aschi (northeastern wind on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf, and on the Makran coast) Rashabar (or Rashaba) ("black wind") (a strong wind in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, particularly in Sulaimaniya) Shamal (a summer northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states) Sharqi (seasonal dry, dusty Middle Eastern wind coming from the south and southeast) Simoom (Samiel) (strong, dry, desert wind that blows in Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and the desert of Arabia) Wind of 120 days (a four-month-long hot and dry wind over the Sistan Basin in Iran and Afghanistan)

The Americas

Latin America and the Caribbean

Caribbean Alisio (easterly trade wind in the Caribbean) Alize (northeasterly across Central America and the Caribbean) Bayamo (violent wind on Cuba's southern coast) Brisote (the northeast trade wind when it is blowing more strongly than usual, in Cuba)

Mexico Cordonazo, also referred to as el cordonazo de San Francisco or the Lash of St Francis (southerly hurricane winds along the west coast of Mexico) Coromuel (south to south-west wind in the La Paz area of the Baja California peninsula and the Gulf of California) Norte (strong cold northeasterly wind in Mexico)

Central America Papagayo (periodic wind which blows across Nicaragua and Costa Rica and out over the Gulf of Papagayo) Tehuantepecer, or Tehuano wind (periodic wind which blows across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico and out over the Gulf of Tehuantepec)

South America Abrolhos (squall near the Abrolhos Islands off the coast of eastern Brazil) Caju (stormy gale-force north-westerly in the Atlantic coast of Brazil) Nordeste (moderate wind from northwest in brazilian Northeast region) Carpinteiro (strong southeasterly wind along the southern Atlantic coast of Brazil) Garua, la garúa, or garoa (dry winds hitting the lower western slopes of the Andes) Minuano (southern Brazil) Zonda wind (on the eastern slope of the Andes in Argentina) Pampero (Argentina and Uruguay), very strong wind that blows from the sea over the Rio de la Plata into the Pampa, generally accompanied with a thick line of squalls, with severe rains, hail and thunderstorm. Puelche (on the western slope of the Andes in south-central Chile) Sudestada, (strong offshore wind from the Southeast associated with most of the shipwrecks in Uruguay's Rio de la Plata coast) Williwaw (strong, violent wind occurring in the Strait of Magellan, the Aleutian Islands, and the coastal fjords of Southeast Alaska)

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In research: List of local winds appears in earth science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses List of local winds in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: List of local winds is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Weather-related lists, Winds, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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What is List of local winds in simple terms?

This is a list of names given to winds local to specific regions. Africa Berg wind, a seasonal katabatic wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high central plateau to the coast in South Africa.

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