The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orographic \Or`o*graph"ic\, Orographical \Or`o*graph"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to orography.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the physical features of mountains, or to orography 2 (context meteorology English) Of or pertaining to the effects of mountains on weather
Usage examples of "orographic".
It was true that the shape of the terrain caused orographic cloud formation more days than not over the unhappy valley, but the dark grey morning when the perfidious Campbells murdered their hosts the Macdonaldsthirty-seven of them, including women and childrenseemed to brood forever over the heather-clad hills.
Bermuda High, the size and circulation of the Southern Sea, and orographic effects of the Great Eastern Mountains, combined to produce high and fairly constant runoffs from its extensive watershed.
A meteorologist might have told her that the conformation of the east coast, combined with this world's equivalent of the Bermuda High, the size and circulation of the Southern Sea, and orographic effects of the Great Eastern Mountains, combined to produce high and fairly constant runoffs from its extensive watershed.