Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... CENTURY , experiment and observation were in full swing . Science had cast off the stultifying classical authority and burgeoned into the modern age . Meteorology was one of the disciplines that benefited from this move- ment . The ...
... CENTURY , experiment and observation were in full swing . Science had cast off the stultifying classical authority and burgeoned into the modern age . Meteorology was one of the disciplines that benefited from this move- ment . The ...
Pàgina 2
... century and most of the twentieth century were refuges from intense heat . We have described two extremes in the weather of the temperate regions of the world . In the first , the winds of winter storms wreak havoc in bar- baric ...
... century and most of the twentieth century were refuges from intense heat . We have described two extremes in the weather of the temperate regions of the world . In the first , the winds of winter storms wreak havoc in bar- baric ...
Pàgina 122
... century 10- 5- 0 500 Channel coasts North Sea coasts 100001 مطر 1000 1500 2000 AD 20th century total estimated as 4/3 ( 1900-75 ) total FIGURE 10.8 The distribution of severe floods per century in northern Eu- rope over the last 2,000 ...
... century 10- 5- 0 500 Channel coasts North Sea coasts 100001 مطر 1000 1500 2000 AD 20th century total estimated as 4/3 ( 1900-75 ) total FIGURE 10.8 The distribution of severe floods per century in northern Eu- rope over the last 2,000 ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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