Abstract
RIVER FLOW RECORDS, the private organisation directed by Capt. W. N. McClean, has just issued in brochure form (Parliament Mansions, London, S.W.I. 105. 6d.) a complete account with diagrams of the observations and readings taken for the year 1935 in connexion with the survey of the River Dee (Aberdeenshire), comprising records of water-level, flow and rainfall. The diagrams, in four sheets, exhibit in coloured outline the monthly water-levels at Cairn ton Gauge Post in 3-hourly averages, and the aggregate rainfall and run-off over a catchment area approximately of 528 square miles. The value of these monthly diagrams has been enhanced since their publication for 1934 by the inclusion of the maximum and minimum temperatures and wind at Balmoral and by the incidence of rainfall from the automatic rain gauge. Thus the occurrence of snow and the effect of temperature in increasing or diminishing the flow become clear in winter and spring months. The effect of wind is not obvious, and it appears likely that certain changes in water-level, which, locally, are attributed to strong down-stream winds, may be due to temperature.
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The Aberdeenshire Dee. Nature 137, 608 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137608c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137608c0