Katabatic wind
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A katabatic wind is a downslope wind caused by the flow of an elevated, high-density air mass into a lower-density air mass below. The spelling catabatic is also used. Since air density is strongly de
Plateau-cooled air falls into the Makhtesh Ramon, traced by radiation fog, just after dawn. Radiative cooling of the desert highlands chills the air, making it more dense than the air over the lowlands. Cooler air can also hold less water vapour; it condenses out as tiny fog droplets, which re-evaporate as the air warms. Here, the falling air is warming adiabatically, and so the fog re-evaporates as it falls.[citation needed]
Katabatic wind in Antarctica
Makhtesh Ramon
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Makhtesh Ramon is a geological feature of Israel's Negev desert. Located some 85 km south of Beersheba, the landform is the world's largest "erosion cirque". The formation is 40 km long, 2–10 km wide
Katabatic wind
…Plateau-cooled air falls into the Makhtesh Ramon, traced by radiation fog, just after dawn. Radiative cooling of the desert highlands chills the air, making it more dense than the air over the lowlands…
The makhtesh is 40 km long, 2–10 km wide and 500 meters deep.
A Nubian ibex on the edges of Makhtesh Ramon
A Nubian ibex on the edges of Makhtesh Ramon
Wide panorama of the Makhtesh Ramon crater, Israel