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Orographic Lifting

Orographic Lifting
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Description: Orographic lifting
Elevated terrains act as barriers
Result can be a rainshadow desert
Frontal wedging
Cool air acts as a barrier to warm air
Fronts are part of the storm systems called middle-latitude cyclones

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