Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... normal " weather of the future . Most of the twentieth cen- tury saw a gentle period of weather that was abnormal in its very normal- ity and relative calm . The floods and drought , the long steamy summers and cold snowy winters are ...
... normal " weather of the future . Most of the twentieth cen- tury saw a gentle period of weather that was abnormal in its very normal- ity and relative calm . The floods and drought , the long steamy summers and cold snowy winters are ...
Pàgina 64
... normal flow can also create a back - door cold front , the front passing from east to west ; but usually within a day it stops and be- comes a stationary front and then moves eastward as a normal warm front . The west wind , the usually ...
... normal flow can also create a back - door cold front , the front passing from east to west ; but usually within a day it stops and be- comes a stationary front and then moves eastward as a normal warm front . The west wind , the usually ...
Pàgina 162
... normal oxygen ( O2 ) in reaction to the incoming radiation from the Sun. We have all heard that the ozone layer has been thinned and diluted in recent years as the result of human activity . Holes , relative depletions in the ozone ...
... normal oxygen ( O2 ) in reaction to the incoming radiation from the Sun. We have all heard that the ozone layer has been thinned and diluted in recent years as the result of human activity . Holes , relative depletions in the ozone ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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