Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... ground as snow , otherwise it will arrive as rain . But if very cold air close to the ground lies beneath warmer air , rain coming down from the upper warm layers may refreeze , reaching the ground in the form of small ice pellets known ...
... ground as snow , otherwise it will arrive as rain . But if very cold air close to the ground lies beneath warmer air , rain coming down from the upper warm layers may refreeze , reaching the ground in the form of small ice pellets known ...
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... ground - we're talking here about the first ten to twenty meters - depends critically on two parameters : the height above the surface and the nature of the ground cover . During the day , particu- larly under sunny conditions , the ...
... ground - we're talking here about the first ten to twenty meters - depends critically on two parameters : the height above the surface and the nature of the ground cover . During the day , particu- larly under sunny conditions , the ...
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... ground in the case of vertical incidence would be given by the solid curve just below the dashed curve in Figure A.1 ; the space between that solid curve and the dashed curve represents the energy absorbed by the air . The real spectral ...
... ground in the case of vertical incidence would be given by the solid curve just below the dashed curve in Figure A.1 ; the space between that solid curve and the dashed curve represents the energy absorbed by the air . The real spectral ...
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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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