Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... average annual minimum temperatures . 10.5 Entry in the Old Farmer's Almanac for July 1816 . Contrary to legend , no predictions of unseasonable frosts were made . XIII 113 116 10.6 Rise of rainfall in Europe ( top line ) and decline of ...
... average annual minimum temperatures . 10.5 Entry in the Old Farmer's Almanac for July 1816 . Contrary to legend , no predictions of unseasonable frosts were made . XIII 113 116 10.6 Rise of rainfall in Europe ( top line ) and decline of ...
Pàgina 21
... average wind speed as well as the average humidity is the same at the same air temperature . Discomfort is a personal matter , and susceptible to personal prejudice , particularly when one bases one's experience on a limited time in a ...
... average wind speed as well as the average humidity is the same at the same air temperature . Discomfort is a personal matter , and susceptible to personal prejudice , particularly when one bases one's experience on a limited time in a ...
Pàgina 34
... average distance . In these ex- treme positions , the Earth receives about 3 percent more and less solar en- ergy in January and July , respectively , than it does on average . At present , the arrival of the Earth at perihelion happens ...
... average distance . In these ex- treme positions , the Earth receives about 3 percent more and less solar en- ergy in January and July , respectively , than it does on average . At present , the arrival of the Earth at perihelion happens ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
Copyright | |
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