Figure 3.21

Hawai’i rain shadows. Most of the Hawaiian Islands experience a rain-shadow effect, as can be seen in this map of 2011 annual rainfall totals.

(Giambelluca, T.W., Q. Chen, A.G. Frazier, J.P.Price, Y.-L. Chen, P.-S. Chu, J.K. Eischeid, and D.M.Delparte, 2013: Online Rainfall Atlas of Hawai’i. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 94, 313-316, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00228.1)