Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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Pàgina 52
... north- ward and back southward with the Sun. A gradient in temperature gives rise to one in pressure at high eleva- tions . The colder air to the north packs down more than the warmer . Be- cause air tends to fill a vacuum , and also ...
... north- ward and back southward with the Sun. A gradient in temperature gives rise to one in pressure at high eleva- tions . The colder air to the north packs down more than the warmer . Be- cause air tends to fill a vacuum , and also ...
Pàgina 99
... north European ice shield passed into the North Sea and the eastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean ; and the shield covering Canada and the northeastern United States , the Laurentian Ice Shield , slid into the sea off Labrador , the ...
... north European ice shield passed into the North Sea and the eastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean ; and the shield covering Canada and the northeastern United States , the Laurentian Ice Shield , slid into the sea off Labrador , the ...
Pàgina 114
... north of the Equator , the summit of the mountain boasts glaciers not seen at sea level much below the Arctic Circle , whereas the city below thrives in a tropical climate . In North Carolina , the weather station atop Mount Mitchell ...
... north of the Equator , the summit of the mountain boasts glaciers not seen at sea level much below the Arctic Circle , whereas the city below thrives in a tropical climate . In North Carolina , the weather station atop Mount Mitchell ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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