Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... storms in the East Coast's history , not unlike the powerful and deadly storm Sebastian Junger described in The Perfect Storm . This was a storm , then , full of sound and fury ; but it faces an opposite number on the weather spectrum ...
... storms in the East Coast's history , not unlike the powerful and deadly storm Sebastian Junger described in The Perfect Storm . This was a storm , then , full of sound and fury ; but it faces an opposite number on the weather spectrum ...
Pàgina 73
... storms ; they lose their circular form and assume irregular shapes , they may merge with a front or another storm , and they decay by losing wind and , later , precipitation . As with temperate storms and low pressure areas , their ...
... storms ; they lose their circular form and assume irregular shapes , they may merge with a front or another storm , and they decay by losing wind and , later , precipitation . As with temperate storms and low pressure areas , their ...
Pàgina 74
... storms move in a generally easterly direction ; these are more properly labeled cy- clones , an alternative term for a low . Wintertime air masses are much smaller and move much faster than summer air masses ; sometimes , several lows ...
... storms move in a generally easterly direction ; these are more properly labeled cy- clones , an alternative term for a low . Wintertime air masses are much smaller and move much faster than summer air masses ; sometimes , several lows ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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