Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pāgines |
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... percent ) is nitrogen ; oxygen makes up another 21 percent . The remaining gases amount to only 1 percent of the total , and most of that is argon , one of the inert gases ( gases that do not combine with other elements ) . Carbon ...
... percent ) is nitrogen ; oxygen makes up another 21 percent . The remaining gases amount to only 1 percent of the total , and most of that is argon , one of the inert gases ( gases that do not combine with other elements ) . Carbon ...
Pāgina 38
... percent , but it will change unevenly from nearly zero to some 5 percent over intervals of about 100,000 years . Summer - winter differences may be more extreme when the orbit is more elliptical than they will when it is almost circular ...
... percent , but it will change unevenly from nearly zero to some 5 percent over intervals of about 100,000 years . Summer - winter differences may be more extreme when the orbit is more elliptical than they will when it is almost circular ...
Pāgina 44
... percent , that of Mars only 15 percent . The Earth is in be- tween , being partly covered with clouds , with an albedo also in between , near 35 percent . The bleak , nearly airless surfaces of the Moon and Mer- cury reflect only 7 to 10 ...
... percent , that of Mars only 15 percent . The Earth is in be- tween , being partly covered with clouds , with an albedo also in between , near 35 percent . The bleak , nearly airless surfaces of the Moon and Mer- cury reflect only 7 to 10 ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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