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A Simple Rainfall Law

Nature volume 121, page 170 (1928)Cite this article

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I HAVE recently prepared statistics giving the maximum total rain falling on any n consecutive days, for selected stations in Ceylon, and over certain periods. These figures, with a discussion, are being published as a paper, “Heavy Rainfall in Ceylon,” in the Transactions of the Engineering Association of Ceylon for 1927.

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JAMESON, H. A Simple Rainfall Law. Nature 121, 170 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121170a0

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