Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... masses and their frontal boundaries in three dimensions . The front is actually a plane or curved surface , perpendicular or tilted with re- spect to the ground , which separates one mass from its neighbor . Where the plane intersects ...
... masses and their frontal boundaries in three dimensions . The front is actually a plane or curved surface , perpendicular or tilted with re- spect to the ground , which separates one mass from its neighbor . Where the plane intersects ...
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... mass extinctions " brought about the disappearance of the dinosaurs , together with all other large land animals , about 65 mil- lion years ago . From 50 to 70 percent of other species then extant also van- ished . This event , known as ...
... mass extinctions " brought about the disappearance of the dinosaurs , together with all other large land animals , about 65 mil- lion years ago . From 50 to 70 percent of other species then extant also van- ished . This event , known as ...
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... masses . And computers , with their gigabyte capacity , permit all these ob- servations to be processed well before the time of the prediction has passed . The mass of data now available give us several reasons for expecting a manmade ...
... masses . And computers , with their gigabyte capacity , permit all these ob- servations to be processed well before the time of the prediction has passed . The mass of data now available give us several reasons for expecting a manmade ...
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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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