Wind
Air cooled by a glacier flows down the glacier. The wind generated by this air movement is known as a katabatic wind. In Antarctica katabatic winds perpetually flow off the Antarctic plateau and are channelled through mountain passes and down steep glaciers to the oceans. They blow at storm force year-round.
Read more about this topic: Catabasis
Famous quotes containing the word wind:
“And the wind shall say: “Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.””
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white
beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your
voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit
single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? and
will you yet call yourself young?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“As flames do work and wind when they ascend,
So did I weave myself into the sense.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)