Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... radiation re- ceived on the ground has been monitored for some time and , despite the stratospheric ozone loss , it has not increased as much as was expected . What seems to save us at present is the injection of manmade ozone into the ...
... radiation re- ceived on the ground has been monitored for some time and , despite the stratospheric ozone loss , it has not increased as much as was expected . What seems to save us at present is the injection of manmade ozone into the ...
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... radiation and reradiation from the Earth's surface are the overwhelmingly largest sources of energy input into the atmosphere ; the amount of heat flux caused by residual heat and radioactive processes coming ini- tially from the ...
... radiation and reradiation from the Earth's surface are the overwhelmingly largest sources of energy input into the atmosphere ; the amount of heat flux caused by residual heat and radioactive processes coming ini- tially from the ...
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... radiation traversing the atmosphere in the ab- sence of clouds reaches a minimum for vertical incidence , which occurs when the Sun is at the zenith , the point directly overhead . It becomes longest when the Sun is near the horizon ...
... radiation traversing the atmosphere in the ab- sence of clouds reaches a minimum for vertical incidence , which occurs when the Sun is at the zenith , the point directly overhead . It becomes longest when the Sun is near the horizon ...
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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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