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Brookings effect

Brookings effect proper noun: a weather phenomenon causing the temperature in Brookings, Oregon, near the Chetco River mouth, to be much higher than that of the surrounding area. Adiabatic heating increases the temperature and reduces relative humidity as katabatic wind, driven by high pressure on the Great Basin, descends across the west slopes of the Cascade Range and Oregon Coast Range.

Proper noun

the Brookings effect

  1. A weather phenomenon causing the temperature in Brookings, Oregon, near the Chetco River mouth, to be much higher than that of the surrounding area. Adiabatic heating increases the temperature and reduces relative humidity as katabatic wind, driven by high pressure on the Great Basin, descends across the west slopes of the Cascade Range and Oregon Coast Range.

Questions about Brookings effect

What does Brookings effect mean?
Brookings effect means a weather phenomenon causing the temperature in Brookings, Oregon, near the Chetco River mouth, to be much higher than that of the surrounding area. Adiabatic heating increases the temperature and reduces relative humidity as katabatic wind, driven by high pressure on the Great Basin, descends across the west slopes of the Cascade Range and Oregon Coast Range.
What part of speech is Brookings effect?
Brookings effect is a proper noun.

Words near Brookings effect in the dictionary

  1. brookies
  2. brookinaw
  3. brooking
  4. Brookings
  5. Brookings County
  6. Brookings effect
  7. Brookins
  8. Brookinses
  9. brookite
  10. brookites
  11. Brooklana

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