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Effect of Rain in Calming the Sea

Nature volume 164, page 968 (1949)Cite this article

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IN Nature of August 20, p. 320, a letter appeared giving details of experiments which indicated that falling drops, which strike the surface of water at their terminal velocity, do not produce vortex rings in the water. I have, however, recently performed experiments, on similar lines, which in no way agree with this result.

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BARNABY, C. Effect of Rain in Calming the Sea. Nature 164, 968 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164968a0

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