Brickfielder
The Brickfielder is a hot and dry wind in the Australian desert that blows in summer from the vegetation-free, hot interior towards the coastal areas of the south.
The brickfielder precedes the passage of a cold front. It causes violent dust storms that can last several days, carries brick-red dust to the coast, and scorches the vegetation. The name came out of the south Sydney located Brickfield apparent from the dust the wind carries with it. Because of its dry heat, it is sometimes regarded as beneficial to health, as it destroys many germs. The brickfielder is almost always followed by a strong southerly buster , which comes cool and cloudy from the ocean.
Both winds are caused by a cyclone over the Australian bay. Such systems often expand inland in the form of a V-shaped, north-facing low pressure channel, with winds from the north on the eastern flank and winds from the south on the western flank. If this narrow system moves eastwards, the wind suddenly turns from north to south and the temperature falls by fifteen degrees within twenty minutes.
At the end of September 2009, the strongest dust storm in 70 years occurred.
See also
List of winches and wind systems
swell
Individual evidence
- ↑ John E. Oliver: Encyclopedia of World Climatology . 2008, ISBN 978-1-4020-3264-6 , pp. 467-470 , entry under Local Winds ( limited preview in Google Book search).