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OSBORNE REYNOLDS, in a short paper entitled “On the Action of Rain to Calm the Sea"1, discussed the action of rain in calming a rough sea. He expressed the opinion that each drop of rain produces a vortex ring which, on descending into the water, transfers momentum from the surface layers to the underneath layers, thus reducing the relative motion of the layers. It was suggested to us by Prof. A. H. Gibson that further experiments were desirable to confirm the above theory.
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Reynolds, O., “Papers Mechanical and Physical Subjects", 86 (Camb. Univ. Press).
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ASHTON, E., O'SULLIVAN, J. Effect of Rain in Calming the Sea. Nature 164, 320–321 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164320a0
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