Weather: How It Works And Why It MattersBasic Books, 7 de gen. 2008 - 240 pāgines Scientists have delved deep into the smallest particles of matter and have extended their view to the far reaches of the universe, but still seem unable to predict the temperature five days hence. In this intriguing book, two scientists examine recent progress in the fields of meteorology and climatology. Amid colorful anecdotes of the Galapagos, Siberia, and places closer to home, they describe the earth's atmosphere, its origin and structure, and the forces that have shaped and continue to affect it. They explore temperature, pressure, and other properties of air and weather, including warm and cold fronts, highs and lows, clouds, trade winds, prevailing westerlies, and sky phenomena such as rainbows, halos, coronae, and sun dogs. The authors end with a discussion of the major threats to earth's atmosphere brought on by human activity, including global warming and ozone depletion, and argue that pure science -- not politics -- should dictate our policy responses. |
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Pāgina xv
... cold period known as the Little Ice Age that had begun in the fifteenth century into a milder period we like to think of as normal . The simultaneity of the two events might be thought to bias weather records in some fashion , but ...
... cold period known as the Little Ice Age that had begun in the fifteenth century into a milder period we like to think of as normal . The simultaneity of the two events might be thought to bias weather records in some fashion , but ...
Pāgina 2
... cold snowy winters are our likely lot for the coming century , and our adding greenhouse gases can only further and prolong the misery . The swirling highs and lows , the warm and cold fronts , and the storms and calm interludes are ...
... cold snowy winters are our likely lot for the coming century , and our adding greenhouse gases can only further and prolong the misery . The swirling highs and lows , the warm and cold fronts , and the storms and calm interludes are ...
Pāgina 9
... cold , moving or still , humid or dry , pure or polluted . Watch any televised weather forecast and you find measures for each of these varying properties . Consider heat . Just what is temperature and what causes a change from hot to cold ...
... cold , moving or still , humid or dry , pure or polluted . Watch any televised weather forecast and you find measures for each of these varying properties . Consider heat . Just what is temperature and what causes a change from hot to cold ...
Pāgina 10
... cold chills you to the bone , move to where those air particles move faster . With cold , the speeds lessen , and at very cold temperatures they become downright slug- gish . There is a limit to temperature at which none of the ...
... cold chills you to the bone , move to where those air particles move faster . With cold , the speeds lessen , and at very cold temperatures they become downright slug- gish . There is a limit to temperature at which none of the ...
Pāgina 15
... cold dry air , such as lies above Antarctica , the vapor content is as low as 0.1 percent of the air . Above a tropical rain forest , vapor may amount to as much as 3 percent . If we could separate these gases and stack them up in ...
... cold dry air , such as lies above Antarctica , the vapor content is as low as 0.1 percent of the air . Above a tropical rain forest , vapor may amount to as much as 3 percent . If we could separate these gases and stack them up in ...
Continguts
15 | |
The Four Seasons | 31 |
Weather Wisdom and Lore | 55 |
Stormy Weather | 71 |
Here Come the Glaciers | 92 |
The Majority Rules | 146 |
From Hoax to Menace | 154 |
Two Worlds | 166 |
The World in a Future Climate | 183 |
Mass and Weight | 200 |
Instances of Global Warming | 213 |
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Pāgina 55 - He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening ye say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.
Pāgina 92 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Pāgina 63 - When the wind is in the east, It's good for neither man nor beast. When the wind is in the north, The old folk should not venture forth, When the wind is in the south, It blows the bait in the fishes
Pāgina 50 - The moon and the weather May change together; But change of the moon Does not change the weather. If we'd no moon at all, And that may seem strange, We still should have weather That's subject to change.
Pāgina 70 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Smite flat the thick rotundity o
Pāgina 42 - The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth.
Pāgina 58 - When the dew is on the grass, Rain will never come to pass. When the grass is dry at night, Look for rain before the light. When grass is dry at morning light, Look for rain before the night.
Pāgina 196 - I'd buried Maman, and like then, my forehead especially was hurting me, all the veins in it throbbing under the skin. It was this burning, which I couldn't stand anymore, that made me move forward. I knew that it was stupid, that I wouldn't get the sun off me by stepping forward. But I took a step, one step, forward.