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  • 41Geography of Nigeria — Satellite image of Nigeria Nigeria is a country in West Africa. Nigeria shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the south and it… …

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  • 42Geography of Paraguay — Shaded relief map of Paraguay …

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  • 43Sudetes — The Sudetes (IPA2|suˈdiːtiːz) is a mountain range in Central Europe. They are also known as the Sudeten (German: IPA| [zu de:tən] ) or Sudety (Czech: IPA| [ sudetɪ] ; Polish: IPA| [su detɨ] ) Mountains.The Sudetes stretch from eastern Germany to… …

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  • 44Lake-effect snow — Lake Effect redirects here. For the American literary journal, see Lake Effect (journal). Lake effect precipitation coming off Lake Erie and into Western New York, as seen by NEXRAD radar, October 12–13, 2006 …

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  • 45Alicante (province) — Alicante in Spanish or Alacant (in Valencian) is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the Valencian Community. It is bordered by the provinces of Murcia on the southwest, Albacete on the west, Valencia on the north, and the… …

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  • 46Advection — Advection, in chemistry, engineering and earth sciences, is a transport mechanism of a substance, or a conserved property, by a fluid, due to the fluid s bulk motion in a particular direction. An example of advection is the transport of… …

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  • 47Rain shadow — For the Australian television series see Rain Shadow (TV series). A rain shadow or rainshadow, or more accurately, precipitation shadow, is a dry region of land that is leeward of a mountain range or other geographic feature, with respect to… …

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  • 48Chinook wind — For other uses, see Chinook (disambiguation). Adiabatic warming of downward moving air produces the warm Chinook wind Chinook winds (  / …

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  • 49Slope soaring — is a gliding technique used to maintain altitude by flying in the updraft produced by wind blowing up the face of a steep slope. Model glider pilots commonly refer to this as slope gliding or sloping . Pilots of full sized gliders also call the… …

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  • 50List of meteorology topics — This is a list of meteorology topics. The terms relate to meteorology, the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. (see also: List of meteorological phenomena)AlphanumericTOC… …

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