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- noun An area which is unusually dry due to nearby geographic features including mountain ranges.
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Examples
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This phenomenon is commonly know as the rainshadow effect.
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It's thought that somewhere between 10 and 16k years ago, these ancestral people skipped across the Beringian land bridge and down into the Americas proper utilizing the pathway relatively clear of ice in the rainshadow of the Rockies.
What the shit? -- A Bad Archaeology on TV Rant zhukora1 2009
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My understanding from a technical standpoint is that the rainshadow effect keeps precipitation off of one half the island.
Matthew Yglesias » Did Haiti Form a Pact With the Devil? 2010
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In Montana, Ecoregion 18 is undivided and lies in the rainshadow of the Beartooth Plateau.
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Moisture is a limiting factor in the rainshadow of the Rocky Mountains; as a result, drought resistant shortgrass and some mixed-grass prairie dominate the plains vegetation.
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Ecoregion 9 is in the rainshadow of the Cascade Range.
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The Baker Valley, located in the rainshadow of the Elkhorn Mountains, is drier and has areas of alkaline soil.
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Moisture is a limiting factor in the rainshadow of the Rocky Mountains; as a result, the plains vegetation is dominated by drought resistant shortgrass prairie.
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It falls under the influence of the Madagascar rainshadow, and hence receives typically lower rainfall than the Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic ecoregion.
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The Bighorn Basin is an arid depression in the rainshadow of the Beartooth Mountains, Absaroka Range, and Pryor Mountains.
vendingmachine commented on the word rainshadow
A rainshadow is an area of significantly reduced rainfall behind a mountainous region, on the side facing away from prevailing winds, known as its leeward side.
May 11, 2023