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How Landforms Affect Temperature

The global weather is to a large extent robbing its severity. Mountain ranges
the result of the sun's effect, along also exert an influence on the earth's
with the atmosphere and the rotation of weather. As a low pressure trough
the earth. The earth on which this approaches a mountain chain it moves
weather moves on has its own effect on upward and spread. With this the
the weather. The different features of rotational speed of the wind decreases
the land and the sea exert quite a and loses much of its strength. Rain
commendable influence on the local and shadow effects are also caused by
the global weather systems of the earth. colossal mountains. When an air current
Huge water bodies absorb and release the moves towards a mountain and is
heat in a slow process. On the other hand obstructed, it moves up and there it
the land mass is quicker in its heating condenses and comes down as rain. As a
and cooling. This causes a large result feet of high mountains are
difference in the temperature of night generally areas with heavy rainfall
and day on land and around the sea. The record. The precipitation falls on the
minimum and maximum temperatures are also windward side or the peaks. If the air
recorded faraway from the coastal areas. reaches the leeward side of the mountain
Since during the day heating of the land then they tend to lose their strength and
mass causes greater convection of air, sink and even dry up. As a result the
clouds are formed quicker over the land. leeward side receives very scanty or no
Such distinctive features play rainfall and comes to be called a rain
significant roles even in the production shadow region. The eastern side of the
of different kinds of wind, from the sea Rockies and the central plain land in the
breezes to the monsoon winds. A friction US are some rain shadow areas. A rain
between the weather system and the land shadow zone with prolonged bout of
mass can also cause quite a change in the no-rainfall can effect into the formation
earth's weather. This is seen when of deserts.
hurricanes cause landfall and make a move Clinton Maxwell publishes most often for
onshore. Generally, when a storm is , a web page on Benissa . His abstracts
intercepted by a mountain or a terrain or on map of costa blanca spain are
buildings, its rotation meets with an published on .
obstruction, in turn slowing it down and




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