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Definition of Foehns
1. foehn [n] - See also: foehn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foehns
Literary usage of Foehns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Popular Treatise on the Winds: Comprising the General Motions of the by William Ferrel (1889)
"In the same manner temporary foehns are produced wherever there is a cyclone so
situated as to draw a current of air over a high mountain range, ..."
2. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"... where the directions and consequent temperature changes are just the reverse.
Therefore: 1. foehns occur at all seasons. 2. The relative humidity of ..."
3. Bulletin by United States Weather Bureau (1895)
"... and dynamic heating in descending the eastern slopes, become the chinooks of
that section, like in character to the foehns of the Alps. And here let me ..."
4. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton, Henry Longueville Mansel, John Vietch (1859)
"These afford the Established »nd il- b examples of the generic relation of knowl-
lustrated. ' edge and foehns; ; and we must not now turn О О ' aside from ..."
5. Characteristics of Existing Glaciers by William Herbert Hobbs (1911)
"... David encountered a hot foehn which thawed the snow, and upon the glacier
tongue below the effects of earlier foehns were found in the channelled ..."
6. Elementary Meteorology by William Morris Davis (1894)
"The southern hemisphere has well-marked foehns in New Zealand, where they descend
from the mountains and blow as ..."
7. Permafrost: Second International Conference, July 13-28, 1973 : USSR by Frederick J. Sanger, Peter J. Hyde (1978)
"... ranges causes foehns to have a major influence on the development of the
temperature conditions in the layer of air near the ground. ..."
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