The highest rainfall in the world occurs in an area whose rainfall is generated by
A) advectional cooling of air masses over cold ocean currents.
B) warm fronts.
C) radiative cooling of cold, moist air.
D) orographic uplift of warm, moist air.
E) convectional uplift of warm, moist air.
D
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