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| == rainfall ==
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| <div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">The [[amount of precipitation]] of any type (including the liquid equivalent of frozen [[hydrometeors]]); usually taken as that amount measured by means of a [[rain gauge]] (thus a small, varying amount of direct [[condensation]] is included).</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">A more accurate term would be [[precipitation]] or precipitation amount. However, the broad use of "rainfall" is firmly established in meteorology, especially in hydrologic and climatological literature. Its best utilization would confine it to liquid precipitation, and so would provide a distinction between precipitation immediately accessible to soil and streams and that delayed in storage as [[snow]] or [[ice]] on the earth's surface.</div><br/> </div>
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