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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the lunar orography they have discerned some chains of mountains, which are chiefly distributed over the northern hemisphere. ❋ Unknown (2003)

At this moment, to the left, lay extended one of the finest circles of lunar orography, one of the curiosities of this continent. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It possessed its own peculiar orography, a mountainous system, making it a world in itself. ❋ Unknown (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? ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)

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. ❋ 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. ❋ Martin [Editor] Hume (1919)

Its orography gives rise to the presence of numerous rivers and streams, all of which are upon the Atlantic watershed. ❋ Martin [Editor] Hume (1919)

England and wishes to know its essential characteristics, we shall do something more than hand him over maps and treatises on the orography and hydrography, the distribution of rainfall, of plants and animals, and the population. ❋ Francis Edward Younghusband (1902)

[1219] Sir Thomas Holdich, India, p. 67, cartogram of Hindu Kush orography. ❋ Ellen Churchill Semple (1897)

Probably the best description of the topography and the orography of the island yet presented is that given by Mr. Robert T. Hill, of the United ❋ Unknown (1893)

The men, in particular, who lived and worked in the placer-mining regions about the base of the mountain, and were, perhaps, more familiar with the orography of the range than any surveyor or professed topographer, were openly incredulous. ❋ Hudson Stuck (1891)

It is important that the reader should be able to see, in his mind's eye, the situation of our camp at the head of the glacier, because to do so is to grasp the simple orography of this face of the mountain, and to understand the route of its ascent, probably the only route by which it can be ascended. ❋ Hudson Stuck (1891)

From observations while hunting mountain-sheep upon the foot-hills for years past, Lloyd had already satisfied himself of this prime fact; had found the key to the complicated orography of the great mass. ❋ Hudson Stuck (1891)

But even in the popular nomenclature one finds the orography of Martinique, as well as of other West Indian islands, regularly classified by _pitons_, _mornes_, and _monts_ or _montagnes_. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

But the observations of scientific travellers have recently thrown great light on the orography of Portuguese America. ❋ Unknown (1851)

But the observations of scientific travellers have recently thrown great light on the orography of ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)

It is only the general results of comparative orography and hydrography that belong to the science whose true limits I am desirous of determining, and not the special enumeration of the greatest elevations of our globe, of active volcanoes, of rivers, and the number of their tributaries, these details falliing rather within the domain of geography, properly so called. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)