Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Middle Atmosphere Program
Author: NASA Reference Publication
Author: Geological Survey Circular
Author: Catalogs of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library
Author: Scripps Institution of Oceanography. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Inadvertent Modification of the Upper Atmosphere
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on the Environment and the AtmospherePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric ozone
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Book Catalog of the Library and Information Services Division: Shelf List catalog
Author: Environmental Science Information Center. Library and Information Services DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Variations in the Global Water Budget
Author: F.A. Street-PerrottPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400969546
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
R.E. Newell President, International Commission on Climate International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics Water is the active ingredient in the global climatic system, its physical properties ensuring that it plays a major role. Its high thermal capacity provides a mechanism for moderating mid latitude winter temperatures; solar energy is absorbed by the surface layers of the middle latitude oceans in summer and is released to the atmosphere in winter as the ocean cools. The variation of saturation vapour pressure with temperature is the factor which causes oceanic surface temperatures at low latitudes to be limited by evaporation to values near 29°C, thereby limiting tropical marine air temperatures to about the same value. The substantial amount of energy involved in phase changes - the latent heat - governs the passage of solar energy to the atmo sphere; visible solar radiation is absorbed at the Earth's surface, energy is supplied to evaporate water and the latent heat is released to the atmosphere when and where condensation occurs, which is often a considerable distance from the source of the moisture. The infrared radiative characteristics of water vapour, namely the broad vibration-rotation bands typical of a triatomic molecule, permit it to act as the principal agent of energy loss from the atmosphere, throu?,h infrared radiation to space.
Book catalog of the Library and Information Services Division
Author: Environmental Science Information Center. Library and Information Services DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Research Progress and Plans
Author: United States. Weather BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Mapping
Author: Arnold Ivan JohnsonPublisher: ASTM International
ISBN: 0803114710
Category : Electronic data processing
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description