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NASA: Rain falls more often during the week than weekends mongabay.com February 4, 2008
Analyzing seven years of data from NASA's TRMM satellite and the Environmental Protection Agency, researchers led by Thomas Bell, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, that, on average, it rains more between Tuesday and Thursday than from Saturday through Monday. Average afternoon rainfall peaks on Tuesday, with 1.8 times more rainfall than on Saturday, which experiences the least amount of afternoon rain. The pattern matches that of pollution levels.
The research is published in the current Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres. CITATION: Bell, T. L., D. Rosenfeld, K.-M. Kim, J.-M. Yoo, M.-I. Lee, and M. Hahnenberger (2008), Midweek increase in U.S. summer rain and storm heights suggests air pollution invigorates rainstorms, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D02209, doi:10.1029/2007JD008623.
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