Orographic Lift, Explained
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Creating snow takes two main ingredients – moisture and rising air. When air rises, it expands due to lower pressure at
Creating snow takes two main ingredients – moisture and rising air. When air rises, it expands due to lower pressure at higher elevations. Expanding air cools, and cooler air allows the moisture in the air to condense into precipitation, changing from a vapor state to a liquid or solid state, depending on temperature. This precipitation will fall as snow when temperatures are cold enough.
Solved] The diagram below shows an orographic lifting example. The
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Orographic Lifting: forced by the earth's topography
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Frontiers Extreme Orographic Rainfall in the Eastern Andes Tied
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Stau and Föhn, Orographic lift. Strong upward currents of air are
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Orographic lift - Wikipedia
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