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(1) A PUBLICATION entitled “Nedboriakttagelser i Norge,” recently received from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, contains information relative to precipitation at about five hundred Norwegian stations over periods of from 10 to 40 years ending 1915. The tables give mean and extreme monthly and annual values, as well as frequencies of occurrence of the various types of precipitation, while the charts show the geographical distribution of some of the tabulated elements. It will be seen that the days on which precipitation of 1/10 mm. or more is measured have a frequency of from 50 to 60 per cent. (per annum) in the western coastal regions, falling to 30–40 per cent, in the more easterly districts of the south and inland districts of the north. Great variability occurs, however, over comparativelv small areas. Whereas Osland (Bergen) reports 1 mm. or more on an average of 197 days in the year, Ulstad, which is also in South Norway, but further east, records this amount on only 54 days.
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W., J. Norwegian Meteorology. Nature 108, 512–513 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108512b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/108512b0