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See also:FOHN (Ger., probably derived through Romansch favongn, favoign, from See also:Lat. favonius) , a warm dry See also:wind blowing down the valleys of the See also:Alps from high central regions, most frequently in See also:winter. The Fohn wind often blows with See also:great violence. It is caused by the indraft of See also:air from the elevated region to areas of See also:low barometric pressure in the neighbourhood, and the warmth and dryness are due to dynamical See also:compression of the air as it descends to See also:lower levels. Similar See also:local winds occur in many parts of the See also:world, as See also:Greenland, and on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. In the See also:southern Alpine valleys the Fohn wind is often called See also:sirocco, but its nature and cause are different from the true sirocco. The belief that the warm dry wind comes from the See also:Sahara See also:dies hard; and still finds expression in some textbooks. For a full See also:account of these winds see Hann, Lehrbuch der Meteorologic, p. 594. End of Article: FOHN (Ger., probably derived through Romansch favongn, favoign, from Lat. favonius)Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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