Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... relative , defined as the ratio of vapor present to that required to produce saturation for a given temperature . Relative humidity ( popularly known as just humidity ) and dew point temperature are the two most common means to describe ...
... relative , defined as the ratio of vapor present to that required to produce saturation for a given temperature . Relative humidity ( popularly known as just humidity ) and dew point temperature are the two most common means to describe ...
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... relative humidity is the only important part of our discomfort . But wait ! This relative humidity often varies by as much as 50 percent on a sunny day at any one location without any infusion of air with differ- ent properties . It can ...
... relative humidity is the only important part of our discomfort . But wait ! This relative humidity often varies by as much as 50 percent on a sunny day at any one location without any infusion of air with differ- ent properties . It can ...
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... relative to the 1961-1990 average . procedures . One can tentatively conclude that during the last one hundred years , global temperature has increased about one degree Celsius . It is tempting to attribute the rising trend to the ...
... relative to the 1961-1990 average . procedures . One can tentatively conclude that during the last one hundred years , global temperature has increased about one degree Celsius . It is tempting to attribute the rising trend to the ...
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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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