movimentos descendentes a sotavento

English translation: descending leeward movements

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Portuguese term or phrase:movimentos descendentes a sotavento
English translation:descending leeward movements
Entered by: lidiarogatto

14:32 Oct 30, 2017
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Geography
Portuguese term or phrase: movimentos descendentes a sotavento
"Em torno das latitudes 30ºS a 20ºS a serra gerou movimentos ascendentes ao longo da costa e **movimentos descendentes a sotavento**, resultando num grande contraste na quantidade de precipitação acumulada."
lidiarogatto
Brazil
Local time: 04:36
descending leeward movements
Explanation:
sotavento: leeword
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Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 00:36
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1downwind movements
Gilmar Fernandes
4descending leeward movements
Oliver Simões
3downward movements of air in the direction of the wind
Richard Purdom


  

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descending leeward movements


Explanation:
sotavento: leeword


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotavento
Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 00:36
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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downwind movements


Explanation:
http://mtc-m16d.sid.inpe.br/col/sid.inpe.br/mtc-m19/2014/02....

From the Abstract:
....uma deficiência do modelo na simulação de chuvas intensas sobre regiões de topografias complexas, apresentando uma tendência de subestimativa da precipitação a sotavento e no topo da montanhas.

...model a deficiency of the model to simulate rainfall heavy over regions of complex topography, showing a trend of underestimation of
precipitation downwind and at the top of the mountains.

https://books.google.com.br/books?id=jaU2AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA2...

Gilmar Fernandes
United States
Local time: 03:36
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in EnglishEnglish
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downward movements of air in the direction of the wind


Explanation:
sotavento - in the direction of the wind
As this is about rainfall, it must mean how the mountains affect atmospheric (air) movements which leads to rainfall

Richard Purdom
Portugal
Local time: 07:36
Native speaker of: English
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