The solution has a pressure force acting on the ridge, which represents theorographicdrag.
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Zones (windward and leeward) were designated in respect to the central massif whoseorographicinfluences result in a marked precipitation gradient.
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The anticyclonic vortex generated by theorographicvortex compression (p > 0) has associated with it a positive free surface deflexion.
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The heaviest rainfall occurred through a process calledorographiclift in the mountainous interior, leading to hundreds of landslides.
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This energy comes from fronts, heating, moistening, or mesoscale convergence boundaries such as outflow and sea breeze boundaries, ororographiclift.
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Convective precipitation events (thunderstorms) tend to produce shorter duration storm events thanorographicprecipitation.
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Cirrocumulus lenticularis forms when stable air is forced upward; this is usually due toorographicfeatures, but can occur away from mountains as well.
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Markedorographicenhancement over this terrain is evident on radar imagery.
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There, the rains were enhanced by moist air rising over the mountain peaks and condensing, a process known asorographiclift.
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Such heavy rainfall typically occurs on the island when tropical cyclones approach, owing toorographicenhancement in the mountainous interior.
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Mechanisms of producing precipitation include convective, stratiform, andorographicrainfall.
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Rainfall can be abundant at times, as mountains very close to the coast create anorographiceffect.
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Because oforographiclift, precipitation increases with elevation up to 8000 ft where it slowly decreases to the crest.
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The effect is enhanced when the moving air mass is uplifted by theorographiceffect of higher elevations on the downwind shores.
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It forms above the mountain range, usually at the beginning of a chinook wind as a result oforographiclifting over the range.
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