Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pāgines |
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... cities known for oppressive summer heat — Washington , Rome , and Athens - but also Vienna , Copen- hagen , and London , cities that during the nineteenth century and most of the twentieth century were refuges from intense heat . We ...
... cities known for oppressive summer heat — Washington , Rome , and Athens - but also Vienna , Copen- hagen , and London , cities that during the nineteenth century and most of the twentieth century were refuges from intense heat . We ...
Pāgina 21
... cities . There are calm days in all four cities when the cold seems less uncomfortable against the bare skin , but the average wind speed as well as the average humidity is the same at the same air temperature . Discomfort is a personal ...
... cities . There are calm days in all four cities when the cold seems less uncomfortable against the bare skin , but the average wind speed as well as the average humidity is the same at the same air temperature . Discomfort is a personal ...
Pāgina 176
... cities , costs could be reduced by building them in regions with favorable geothermal gradients ; high - tension lines could then transport the electric- ity to the cities , but also at high cost . Geothermal power plants are so new ...
... cities , costs could be reduced by building them in regions with favorable geothermal gradients ; high - tension lines could then transport the electric- ity to the cities , but also at high cost . Geothermal power plants are so new ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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