Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pāgines |
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Pāgina 21
... Precipitation comes in several flavors : rain , freezing rain , sleet , snow , hail , dew , and frost . The last two , dew and frost , aren't strictly considered precipitation at all ; they form on grass or the side of a glass of cold ...
... Precipitation comes in several flavors : rain , freezing rain , sleet , snow , hail , dew , and frost . The last two , dew and frost , aren't strictly considered precipitation at all ; they form on grass or the side of a glass of cold ...
Pāgina 22
... precipitation reaches the 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 ...
... precipitation reaches the 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 ...
Pāgina 77
... precipitation and more abundant carbon dioxide favors vegetation , which responds by extracting carbon from the air at a faster rate . Conversly , a shortage of carbon dioxide leads to lower tempera- tures , less precipitation , and a ...
... precipitation and more abundant carbon dioxide favors vegetation , which responds by extracting carbon from the air at a faster rate . Conversly , a shortage of carbon dioxide leads to lower tempera- tures , less precipitation , and a ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
Copyright | |
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