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Definition of Rain shadow
1. Noun. An area that has little precipitation because some barrier causes the winds to lose their moisture before reaching it.
Definition of Rain shadow
1. Noun. (meteorology) an area of diminished precipitation on the lee side of mountains ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rain Shadow
Literary usage of Rain shadow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Weather by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Rose/Graf, Mike Graf, Nancy Schoefl, Evan-Moor (Firm (2002)
"The eastern slopes, on the other hand, are in what's known as a rain shadow, and
they receive much less precipitation. A perfect example of the rain shadow ..."
2. Principles of Human Geography by Ellsworth Huntington, Sumner W. Cushing (1922)
"Places in a rain-shadow get little rain, just as places in an ordinary shadow
... The rain-shadow often causes Great Valley ?"•*' , of California <7 ^ S,. ..."
3. Principles of Human Geography by Ellsworth Huntington, Sumner W. Cushing (1922)
"Places in a rain-shadow get little rain, just as places in an ordinary shadow get
... The rain-shadow often causes Pacific Great Buin •I,.. S FIG. 80. ..."
4. The Rainfall of Chile by Mark Sylvester William Jefferson (1921)
"RAINS TO WEST AND rain shadow TO EAST The rains come from the Pacific. The valleys
lie in the rain shadow of the coastal mountains, as the western Argentine ..."
5. Quito to Bogotá by Arthur Clifford Veatch (1917)
"One would expect to find all the portion between the two Cordilleras a rain-shadow,
and that there would probably be a gradual increase in precipitation ..."
6. Technology and Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific by Jorge Braga de Macedo, Tadao Chino (2002)
"It is a dry, rain—shadow, backward region. Population growth from 1971 to 1991
was 71 per cent, as against an average of 37 per cent for its size-class of ..."
7. Technology and Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific by Jorge Braga de Macedo, Tadao Chino (2002)
"It is a dry. rain-shadow, backward region. Population growth from 1971 to 1991
was 71 per cent, as against an average of 37 per cent for its size-class of ..."
8. Technology and Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific by Jorge Braga de Macedo, Tadao Chino (2002)
"It is a dry, rain-shadow, backward region. Population growth from 1971 to 1991
was 71 per cent, as against an average of 37 per cent for its size-class of ..."
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