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Mountain-gap wind, the Glossary

A mountain-gap wind, gap wind or gap flow is a local wind blowing through a gap between mountains.^[1]

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Mesoscale meteorology
Mountain meteorology

Columbia River Gorge

The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

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Hinlopen Strait

The Hinlopen Strait (Hinlopenstretet) is the strait between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet in Svalbard, Norway.

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Iron Gates

The Iron Gates (Porțile de Fier; Ђердапска клисура / Đerdapska klisura or Гвоздена капија / Gvozdena kapija; Hungarian: Vaskapu-szoros) is a gorge on the river Danube.

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Košava (wind)

Košava (Кошава) is a cold, very squally southeastern wind found in parts of Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

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Levant (wind)

The levant (Llevant, Levante, Lvant, Λεβάντες, Levante) is an easterly wind that blows in the western Mediterranean Sea and southern France, an example of mountain-gap wind.

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Olympic Mountains

The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

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Spitsbergen (formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: Vest Spitsbergen or Vestspitsbergen, also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway.

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Strait of Gibraltar

The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Europe from Africa.

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Strait of Juan de Fuca

The Strait of Juan de Fuca (officially named Juan de Fuca Strait in Canada) is a body of water about long that is the Salish Sea's main outlet to the Pacific Ocean.

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Tehuantepecer

Tehuantepecer, or Tehuano wind, is a violent mountain-gap wind that travels through the Chivela Pass in southern Mexico, across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.

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Valley exit jet

A valley exit jet is a strong, down-valley, elevated air current that emerges above the intersection of the valley and its adjacent plain. Mountain-gap wind and valley exit jet are mountain meteorology.

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Wind

Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface.

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Wind farm

A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity.

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