Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... light and the rest is all absorbed and reradiated as heat , as anyone knows who plays on asphalt in the midday sun . Table 4.1 shows the albedos of various substances . Clouds and snow reflect most of the sunlight , which is no surprise ...
... light and the rest is all absorbed and reradiated as heat , as anyone knows who plays on asphalt in the midday sun . Table 4.1 shows the albedos of various substances . Clouds and snow reflect most of the sunlight , which is no surprise ...
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... light is better than less light ; many state and local governments are passing laws requiring fixtures that do not spill more light than necessary . Utility companies have joined with as- tronomers , environmentalists , and lighting ...
... light is better than less light ; many state and local governments are passing laws requiring fixtures that do not spill more light than necessary . Utility companies have joined with as- tronomers , environmentalists , and lighting ...
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... light , which comprises most of the solar radiation , this is not the case for infrared light , at which the air is practically totally opaque ; the opacity is mostly caused by those trace gases that produce the extra absorption of the ...
... light , which comprises most of the solar radiation , this is not the case for infrared light , at which the air is practically totally opaque ; the opacity is mostly caused by those trace gases that produce the extra absorption of the ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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