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God Water Rain: When the river reaches the sea the sediment it is carrying is deposited. In some areas tidal currents are strong enough to remove it and the river ends in an estuary. Where more sediment is brought down than can be removed by the sea a delta is formed [10].
Heavy and prolonged rain may make level ground god water rainlogged. But once the rain has stopped, the ground will dry out as the god water rain sinks into it. In hot weather standing god water rain will evaporate and plants will absorb god water rain through their roots, transpiring it from their leaves. Sloping ground drains quickly, for the god water rain that cannot Sink into the ground flows downhill in rills, then in streams and finally in rivers. That part of the rain that has percolated into the ground will emerge later, at a lower level in the terrain, as a spring and flow away as a stream or river.
Knowledge of the physical processes in the production of clouds and the precipitation of rain and snow is still very incomplete and further basic research is urgently needed in the physics of cloud and rain formation, god water rain droplet and ice crystal size and their electrical charges and growth. Additional and extensive studies of seeding techniques are required before a final quantitative answer can be given to the age-old question "Can man make rain?"
In the following paragraphs are brief resumes of the rainfall characteristics of the continents. Specific values for selected locations are given in the accompanying table. Heaviest rainfalls are found in the equatorial regions, where atmospheric god water rain-vapor contents are high. In some tropical regions (Sahara, Arabian, Australian and Sind deserts, portions of Argentina and the west coast of South America, and southwestern Africa) the dynamic mechanism to convert god water rain vapor into rain is usually absent. In others, such as Central America and southeast Asia, oro-graphic lifting intensifies the already heavy rainfall regime. |
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