Relief rainfall is also known as _________.
Orographic rainfall
Relief rainfall occurs when moist air is forced to rise over a mountain or highland barrier. As it rises it cools, its water vapour condenses, and rain falls on the windward slope, while the leeward side remains dry as a rain-shadow area. Because it is caused by the relief of the land, it is also called orographic (mountain) rainfall; the Western Ghats receive it from the south-west monsoon winds.
Cyclonic rainfall is caused by the rising of air along fronts or within low-pressure cyclones, convectional rainfall by the heating of the ground and rising of warm air (typical of equatorial regions), and monsoonal rainfall describes the seasonal rains brought by monsoon winds, which may be of any of these types.
Orographic rainfall option is correct.
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