WlCE:

Mr. Bell?

BELL:

Cur technique was, since ve are & rather poor project —

financially, I mean == I built with my ow hands a bunch of
furmals ont of sheet netal and put them in - staked then out
above jugs, and in some cases the jugs would rum over, and in
wome cases they wruldn't.

But these counts I'm giving are

counts per minute per liter of rain.
VOICE:

What were the variations?

BELL:

Xt was sixty-five samples — of about ten samples — sixtyfive tines.

PATCEs

What was the range of the rainfall variations?

BELL:

Well, that's kind of tough, beonuse I didn't try to measure
the quantity of rein,

I tock that from those taken at the

weather bureau and other people around there; because as J
understand it you can't just go cut and stick one collectcr
out and expect to get any quantitetive results.
know about that.

I don't

I figure a tree or something nearty would

change the reading.

You want te put it inte « place where trees and other things

WEXLER:

wn't drift into it. You're fortunately located in Massechusetts.

You have a very exoelient weather radar at MIT

there which could give you some indication sa to the uniforaity

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