radioactive fallout or atmospheric pollution carried to the earth by rain
rainout in American English
(ˈreɪnˌaʊt)
US
noun
an event that has been postponed or canceled because of rain
Examples of 'rainout' in a sentence
rainout
A maximum edge effect of 0.75 m defined a sampling area of 1 × 1 m under the rainout-shelter.
Dominika Kundel, Dominika Kundel, Svenja Meyer, Herbert Birkhofer, Andreas Fliessbach,Paul Mäder, Stefan Scheu, Mark van Kleunen, Mark van Kleunen, Klaus Birkhofer 2018, 'Design and Manual to Construct Rainout-Shelters for Climate Change Experiments inAgroecosystems', Frontiers in Environmental Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00014/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In addition, we describe a rainout-shelter control treatment giving the possibility to quantify and account for potential shelter artifacts.
Dominika Kundel, Dominika Kundel, Svenja Meyer, Herbert Birkhofer, Andreas Fliessbach,Paul Mäder, Stefan Scheu, Mark van Kleunen, Mark van Kleunen, Klaus Birkhofer 2018, 'Design and Manual to Construct Rainout-Shelters for Climate Change Experiments inAgroecosystems', Frontiers in Environmental Sciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00014/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)