Trace substances in rain water: concentration variations during convective rains, and their interpretationFootnote¹

1 Publication no. 146 from the Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, the University of Michigan.

Footnote²

2 This work was supported in part by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Division of Biology and Medicine, Fallout Studies Branch, Contract No. AT(U-1).1407; and in part by the University of Michigan, Memorial Phoenix Project, Grant No. 343.

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