Kauaʻi Conservation Atlas

Kauaʻi record · KCA-SC-0003

Trade-wind orographic rainfall regime

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Wet montane forest shaped by trade-wind orographic rainfall.
Wet montane forest shaped by trade-wind orographic rainfall. Representative Atlas visual reused from Montane wet forest.

About Trade-wind orographic rainfall regime

Recurring rainfall pattern generated by trade flow and topography; strongest windward/mauka.

Names and classification

Other names
Trade-wind orographic rainfall regime · Trade-wind orographic rainfall
Record type
cycle

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