rain-shadow
rain-shadow The reduction of rainfall to the lee side of a mountain barrier, which results in relatively dry surface conditions, e.g. in the mountains of the south-western USA, where the wetter western slopes of the Coast Range and Sierra Nevada contrast with the desert areas of Nevada and eastern California on the lee side of the mountains.
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