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Cool air draining from high plateaus and ice fields into a valley is called:
AKatabatic wind
BValley breeze
CSea breeze
DGeostrophic
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Katabatic wind
1. Valley breeze blows upslope by day.
2. Katabatic wind is the cold downhill drainage.
3. Warm dry leeward winds warm adiabatically.
_Source: NCERT Class 11 Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 10, Atmospheric Circulation and Weather Systems._
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