Orography: A description of mountains.
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Orography
/ɒˈɹɒɡɹəfi/
Synonyms for "orography" (7 found)
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landform studymeteorological orography
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mountain geographyorology
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7 entriescoastal topographymountain topographyorographic liftorographic rainfallorographic wavesplains topographyvalley topography
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6 entriesorographic liftorographic precipitationorography analysisorography dataorography fieldorography maps
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A knowledge of the Hydrography of a country aids as much in determining its geology as does its Orography, — that is, a description of its mountains.
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Morocco was in 1883-1884 the scene of important explorations by de Foucauld, a Frenchman who, disguised as a Jew, crossed and re-crossed the Atlas and supplied the first trustworthy information as to the orography of many parts of the chain.
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Most flows actually occur, of course, over non-uniform orography and consequently in numerical models of such flows it is necessary to transform the coordinates so that the equations accurately represent flows in such terrain (Gal-Chen and Somerville 1975).
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