It rains in the desert. Possible mechanisms are discussed in the literature. It seems to rain a lot when Mae is around. While conducting the study, all of the participating groups, except for two, used at least one Tekran Model 2537A mercury vapour analyzer. Since the study, the two remaining groups purchased their own Tekran analyzers.
Readers are free to draw their own conclusions.
A series of papers on the workshop were published September 1999 in the Journal for Geophysical Research , Volume 21, pages 829 - 896. For more information about the study, visit our Nevada main page .