[DOC] [TLE] Adiabatic Heating and Cooling - Cengage Learning [PAR] CHAPTER 6  MOISTURE, CONDENSATION, AND PRECIPITATION. 154 ... A 
rising air parcel will cool at one of these two adiabatic ... rate reflects nothing 
more than the vertical temperature ..... air rises above the front caused by contact 
with the cold air. ... precipitation is termed orographic (from Greek: oros, 
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The term orographic comes from the Greek word oros, meaning mountain. ... If 
there is enough moisture in the air, the cooling will cause it to condense and form 
clouds. ... These little puffs of clouds are formed by very small convective currents
. [DOC] [TLE] Orographic precipitation | Define Orographic precipitation at ... [PAR] Orographic precipitation definition, precipitation caused by the lifting of moist air 
over a mountain barrier. See more. [DOC] [TLE] Orographic rainfall and its place in the hydrology of the globe [PAR] ... moisture from the atmosphere in the form of rain, snow or hail, rising air is a 
necessity- ... has come to be spoken of as 'I orographic  from the Greek oros, a 
mountain. ... in his Distribution of rainfall over the globe, were up to 80 inches for 
the tract of ... amclng mountains 3,000 to 4,000 feet high exposed to moist sea 
winds. [DOC] [TLE] What are the different types of rainfall? - Quora [PAR] There are three common types of rainfall, all of which occur in the United 
Kingdom. All have the ... Two air masses meet, one a warm air mass and one a 
cold air mass. The lighter ... The moist air reaches the coast and is forced to rise 
over mountains and hills. .... These are convectional rain fall,relief rainfall,frontal 
rain fall. [DOC] [TLE] What are the different Types of Precipitation? - PublishYourArticles.net [PAR] All precipitation occurs from clouds, and by far the most important cause of clouds 
is ... ways in which an air mass may be forced to rise, and each of these produces 
its ... the actuating force is the thermal convection of warm and moist air masses. 
... The precipitation thus obtained is referred to as orographic (from Greek: oros... [DOC] [TLE] Weather Systems - ftp - University of Washington [PAR] Baroclinic wave activity tends to be most vigorous ... but as these features amplify
, they come into vertical .... Section 7.4.1 that the rising of warm air and sinking .... 
field and causes the surface wind at a fixed station to ..... contrast between humid 
air advected northward .... of precipitation over Illinois and much of Wisconsin. [DOC] [TLE] daryl holmlund  2011  March [PAR] Mar 29, 2011 ... Most Front Range communities brag about getting over 300 days of sunshine 
each year. ... The Greek word for mountain is oros and the Latin word for rise is 
oriri. ... as orographic lift describes the rising movement of air over mountains. ... 
One of these stories tells of a young girl named Chinook-Wind who... [DOC] [TLE] Mountain Climate - Mark Williams [PAR] Our primary concern is in the significance of all these more or less ..... When 
moist air blows perpendicular to a mountain range, the air is forced to rise; as it 
does, it is ... and precipitation on the windward slope is known as the orographic 
effect ..... As clouds move over mountains, build and dissipate through each day, 
they... [DOC] [TLE] Mountains facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] All these ideas and many more are encompassed in the concept of plate 
tectonics, .... Convergence of oceanic plates causes one plate to sink beneath the 
other, ... In the case of a volcanic neck, lava rises and erupts, leaving a mountain 
that looks .... Wind pushes air and moisture-filled clouds up mountain slopes, and 
as the... [DOC] [TLE] Volume 2 - Durham e-Theses - Durham University [PAR] One of these invisible gases that make up the air is a gas which comes .... M 
more and more water evaporotes the water vapour formed rises qnd Is ..... The 
Greek word for mountains is

Question: Orographic precipitation is caused by moist air rising over one or more of these, oros in Greek
Answer: mountains