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What will be an ideal response?


Answer: 1. Orographic lifting, forcing air above a mountain barrier.
2. Frontal lifting, displacement of one air mass over another
3. Convergence, horizontal movement of air into an area at low levels
4. Localized convective lifting due to buoyancy.

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