Localized Winds

• Sea Land Breezes
  • daily reversal of winds due to differential heating
  • sea breezes during day (from sea to land)
  • land breezes during night (from land to sea)
    
    
• Valley and Mountain Breezes
  • daily reversal of winds due to differential heating
  • up valley during the day; down valley during the night
    • Airport alignments (Auburn, Colusa)

• Katabatic Winds

• originate as frigid, upland air that escapes toward lower elevations
• cold, dense, and powerful (often destructive) winds
• Polar regions, European Alps
  
  
• Foehn / Chinook Winds / California's "Santa Ana" winds
  • high pressure to low pressure
  • rapid downslope movement of air that is adiabatically warm (compressed)