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IT is generally recognized that one of the most satisfactory single-value climatic indices in estimating the efficiency of rainfall for the purposes of agriculture and plant ecology is the Transeau ratio of precipitation to evaporation from a free water surface1, or the Meyer ratio of precipitation to atmospheric saturation deficit2.
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PRESCOTT, J. A Climatic Index. Nature 157, 555 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157555c0
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