This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/BRE.12443 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved MISS VALERIA ZAVALA (Orcid ID : 0000-0001-5266-2186) Article type : Original Article Influence of orographic precipitation on the topographic and erosional evolution of mountain ranges Valeria Zavala 1 , Sebastien Carretier 1 , Stephane Bonnet 1 1 GET, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, UPS, Toulouse, France Corresponding author : Valeria Zavala valeria.zavala@get.omp.eu Data availability statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Abstract The influence of climate on mountain denudation has been the topic of an intense debate for two decades. This debate partly arises from the co-variation of rainfall and topography during the growth of mountain ranges, both of which influence denudation. However, the denudational response of this co- evolution is poorly understood. Here, we use a landscape evolution model where the rainfall evolves according to a prescribed rainfall-elevation relationship. This relationship is a bell curve defined by a rainfall base-level, a rainfall maximum and a width around the rainfall peak elevation. This is a first-order model that fits a large range of orographic rainfall data at the 1 km spatial scale. We carried out simulations of an uplifting block with an alluvial apron, starting from an initially horizontal surface, and Accepted Article