Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... amounts . 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 ...
... amounts . 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 ...
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... amount to a layer of about 6 inches ( 15 centimeters ) . The water vapor content of the air undergoes large variations from one time and place to another , and in the stacking picture varies from about 25 feet to almost 700 feet , or ...
... amount to a layer of about 6 inches ( 15 centimeters ) . The water vapor content of the air undergoes large variations from one time and place to another , and in the stacking picture varies from about 25 feet to almost 700 feet , or ...
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... amount of this element ; but as they die and decay , a process sets in that can be slow enough for bodies to sink or be carried by the cur- rents to depths where the absence of light precludes photochemical processes . Life exists even ...
... amount of this element ; but as they die and decay , a process sets in that can be slow enough for bodies to sink or be carried by the cur- rents to depths where the absence of light precludes photochemical processes . Life exists even ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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