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orographic rain
Sinônimos - Inglês
relief rain
Definição1
Rain resulting when moist air is forced upward by a mountain range.
Fonte1
MARINE WEATHER glossary. Starpath School of Navigation. [S.l.], 2022. Disponível em: < https://starpath.com/cgi-bin/web_card/courses/glossary.pl?show_index=1&cat=Marine_Weather/>. Acesso em: 27 jul. 2022.
Definição2
Relief or orographic rain is formed when air is forced to cool when it rises over relief features in the landscape such as hills or mountains. As it rises it cools, condenses and forms rain.
Fonte2
Barcelona Field Studies Centre: Geography Fieldwork.com. Disponível em: < https://geographyfieldwork.com/ReliefRain.htm>. Acesso em: 27 jul. 2022
Fonte3
HALL, R. J.; CAMPBELL, R. D. Dictionary of aviation. Oxford: BSP, c1991. vi, 346 p.
Fonte4
Breidenthal, R.E.; Zagar, N. The critical slope angle for orographic rain. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2013, December, pages A13L-10. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 27 jul.
Nota Adicional1
Orographic refers to something of, pertaining to, or caused by mountains as in orographic clouds, orographic lift or orographic precipitation.
Contexto
Krishnamurti has shown that orographic rain depends on the slope of the windward terrain rather than just the total elevation gain.
Subárea
Aeronautical Meteorology
Français
pluie orographique
Imagem

 Orographic rain or relief rain.

Orographic rain or relief rain.

Source: Barcelona Field Studies Centre: Geography Fieldwork.com. Disponível em: < https://geographyfieldwork.com/ReliefRain.htm>. Acesso em: 27 jul. 2022.