Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... records . In 1714 , Gabriel Fahrenheit fashioned the temperature scale that still bears his name , and thirty years later , Anders Celsius did the same , but with a different scale and zero point . Researchers learned to equate certain ...
... records . In 1714 , Gabriel Fahrenheit fashioned the temperature scale that still bears his name , and thirty years later , Anders Celsius did the same , but with a different scale and zero point . Researchers learned to equate certain ...
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... Records belie this in any loca- tion , but nothing can shake the belief , and sloppy recordkeeping only acts to reaffirm it . In New England , with good records lasting for centuries , snowfall amounts since colonial times are about as ...
... Records belie this in any loca- tion , but nothing can shake the belief , and sloppy recordkeeping only acts to reaffirm it . In New England , with good records lasting for centuries , snowfall amounts since colonial times are about as ...
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... record goes back 12,000 years , far enough to catch the end of the last ice age . It also shows , in good agreement with all other historical climate records , a particularly warm period from about 8,000 to about 5,000 years ago . To ...
... record goes back 12,000 years , far enough to catch the end of the last ice age . It also shows , in good agreement with all other historical climate records , a particularly warm period from about 8,000 to about 5,000 years ago . To ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
Copyright | |
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