Animal species that live in environments as harsh as the Antarctic have many incredible adaptations to help them survive.

This process is what is thermodynamically known as katabatic wind, ... A textbook example of a La Niña winter. From about Sacramento southward, La Niña winters are generally below average.

Between avalanches, geysers, and katabatic winds, the Martian spring has been packing all the worst weather events into its small northern ice cap. Ice avalanches are common in Martian spring .

“We believe that the katabatic winds are the response of healthy glaciers to rising global temperatures and that this phenomenon could help preserve the permafrost and surrounding vegetation ...

However, the katabatic winds are now shifting this balance: the colder air masses flowing down from the glaciers are lowering the altitude at which precipitation takes place.

This evidence demonstrates that katabatic winds work as a pump that’s able to transport cold air from the higher elevation and the atmospheric layers down to the valley, Pellicciotti explained.