Mark Hoover, CDC/NIOSH. Mark D. Hoover is a senior research scientist in the Division of Respiratory Disease Studies at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in Morgantown, West Virginia.
This attracts the air from the valley, creating a breeze that blows from the valley floor up towards the top of the mountain. Often birds known as raptors, such as eagles, hawks, condors and vultures, float on these breezes to preserve their energy. This wind pattern is known as a valley breeze.
See also. 1  Fremantle Doctor, the local name for the sea breeze in and around Perth, Western Australia. 2  Southerly buster, a sea breeze, though usually a storm, which is experienced in the southeast coast of New South Wales, southern coast of Victoria and New Zealand. 3  Mountain breeze and valley breeze.