orography

Examples include the representation of clouds and radiation; dry and moist convective processes; the formation of precipitation and its deposition on the surface as rain or snow; the interactions between the atmosphere and the land-surface orography (including the drag on the atmosphere caused by breaking gravity waves); and atmospheric boundary-layer processes and their interaction with the surface.

Global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models 2009

It has a very complex orography whose determinants include a mountainous surface full of cliffs, ridges, hillsides and valleys, with a steep and highly dissected topography.

Peruvian Yungas 2008

In the lunar orography they have discerned some chains of mountains, which are chiefly distributed over the northern hemisphere.

Round the Moon 2003

At this moment, to the left, lay extended one of the finest circles of lunar orography, one of the curiosities of this continent.

Round the Moon 2003

It possessed its own peculiar orography, a mountainous system, making it a world in itself.

Round the Moon 2003

Who could advance objections against conscientious observers, who at less than twenty-four miles distance had marked that curious mountain of Tycho, the strangest system of lunar orography?

Round the Moon 2003

Approaching now, through the high valleys, the central region of the mountain system of Corsica, this may be a proper place for a brief survey of the main features in its orography and geological structure.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

Coahuila, in common with others of its neighbouring states, possesses some peculiar topographical conditions -- portions of it consisting of plains or valleys with no hydrographic outlet, as shown in the chapter dealing with the orography of the Republic.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

Indeed, a study of Mexico's orography and the delineation upon the map shows the series of parallel features formed by alternate mountain-folds and intervening basins -- the peninsula of Lower California; the Gulf of the same name; the Western Sierra Madre; the intersecting crests of the great plateau; the Eastern Sierra Madre, and the Gulf Coast.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

Its orography gives rise to the presence of numerous rivers and streams, all of which are upon the Atlantic watershed.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919