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ON reading the article on “The Meteorology of the Future,” in NATURE, December 12, I pondered over this passage—“It is impossible to determine the rainfall over the ocean;” and it occurred to me that it is possible to do something in that line approximately. Is the Challenger supplied with rain-gauges? Would it not be possible to determine in some measure the hourly amount of rainfall over the ocean, in the zones of greatest precipitation, or in those of periodical rains, without detaining the ship unduly; and would not such data be useful in solving some of the problems connected with the working out of the law of cyclones?
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MILLER, S. The Ocean Rainfall. Nature 7, 123 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/007123e0
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