Climate or climatological period climate characterized by relatively high precipitation
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Not to be confused with thepluviale, a liturgical vestment.
Ingeology andclimatology, apluvial is either a modernclimate characterized by relatively highprecipitation or an interval of time of variable length, decades to thousands of years, during which a climate is characterized by relatively high precipitation or humidity. Subdivisions of a pluvial, which are characterized by relatively high precipitation, are known as asubpluvials. Formally, pluvials were equated withglacial stages of theQuaternary. However, pluvials, as in equatorial regions, can also occur duringinterglacial stages. No lower latitudes have experienced major pluvials in early to mid-Holocene times.
Ingeomorphology, a pluvial refers to a geologic episode, change, process, deposit, or feature that is the result of the action or effects of rain. Sometimes, it also refers to thefluvial action of rainwater flowing in a stream channel, including a flood, known as apluvial flood, that is the direct result of excessive precipitation.[1][2]
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