There are several scientific theories on why this area saw double digits of rain in a four day stretch, one being the orographic effect. The orographic effect occurs when air masses are forced to ...

The only probable place where cloud seeding could be successful, Alpert says, is when seeding is performed on orographic clouds, which develop over mountains and have a short lifespan. In this ...

As you may know, one man’s three-ply is another man’s leaves. Orographic lift is what it takes to get this old goat moving every morning. Well, sort of. It actually refers to what happens when ...

The breaking of orographic gravity waves induces a zonal wave drag in the middle troposphere, which destroys the geostrophic balance of the large-scale westerly flow and thus drives an ...