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Category : Air
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Middle Atmosphere Program
Author: Recent Polar and Glaciological Literature
Author: Annual Report
Author: National Center for Atmospheric Research (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Atmosphere
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Chronique de l'U.G.G.I.
Author: International Union of Geodesy and GeophysicsPublisher:
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Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Proceedings of the 9th International Cloud Physics Conference, Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR 21-28 August, 1984
Author: World Meetings Outside United States and Canada
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Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Effective Cloud Cover Variations
Author: Olavi KärnerPublisher: A. Deepak Publishing
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A critical breakthrough in the measurement of radiation, this book shows how it is possible to measure changes in the net radiation at the top of the earth's atmosphere by the earth's changing levels of cloudiness. The authors show how satellite-radiation budget measurements may be converted into effective cloud parameters, in order to study the variability of long-term global cloudiness. Their results will enable scientists to track large-scale redistributions of cloudiness. CHAPTER 1 illustrates a number of problems that could be helped by current information on effective cloud parameters. CHAPTER 2 describes the satellite data from NOAA scanning radiometers (1974-1977) & Nimbus-7 ERB experiments (1979-1986) used in the book. CHAPTER 3 discusses the measurement of the effective cloud amount, & offers comparisons between existing total effective cloud estimates. CHAPTER 4 deals with effective cloud-top height estimates & CHAPTER 5 with cloud radiative forcing. CHAPTER 6 explores the empirical methods to study the sensitivity of the radiation-budget to cloud variations. CHAPTER 7 describes approximation & validation of cloud-amount frequency distributions. In CHAPTER 8, a simple method to obtain the monthly mean surface isolation is presented. Extensive bibliography.
Twenty Years of Ozone Decline
Author: Christos ZerefosPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048124697
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Homer speaks of lightning bolts after which ‘a grim reek of sulphur bursts forth’ and the air was ‘?lled with reeking brimstone’. (Homer 3000 BC). The odour was not actually the smell of sulphur dioxide associated with burning sulphur, but rather was the ?rst recorded detection of the presence of another strong odour, that of ozone (O ) in Earth’s atmosphere. These molecules were formed by the passage of 3 lightning through the air, created by splitting the abundant molecular oxygen (O ) 2 molecules into two, followed by the addition of each of the free O atoms to another O to form the triatomic product. In fact, most of the ozone molecules present 2 in the atmosphere at any time have been made by this same two-step splitti- plus-combination process, although the initiating cause usually begins with very energetic solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation rather than lightning. Many thousands of years later, the modern history of ozone began with its synthesis in the laboratory of H. F. Schonbein in 1840 (Nolte 1999), although the positive con?rmation of its three-oxygen atom chemical formula came along sometime later. Scienti?c interest in high-altitude stratospheric ozone dates back to 1881 when Hartley measured the spectrum of ozone in the laboratory and found that its ability to absorb UV light extended only to 293nm at the long wavelength end (Hartley 1881a).
Global Climatology and Ecodynamics
Author: Arthur Philip CracknellPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540782095
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
The exclusive role of natural ecosystems is a key factor in the maintenance of the biospheric equilibrium. The current global crisis is largely caused by their dramatic decline by 43% in the past hundred years. Ignoring the immutable laws and limitations which determine the existence of all living things in the biosphere could lead humanity to an ecological catastrophe. This book presents the ecological, demographic, economic and socio-psychological manifestations of the global crisis and outlines the immutable laws and limitations which determine the existence of all living things in the biosphere. The authors are eminently qualified to write about the problems associated with the global crisis and consider the causes behind humanity's conflict with its environment. V. Danilov-Danilian, Associate of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russia's former Minister of the Environment, and K. Losev, professor at Moscow State university, are leading Russian ecologists and I. Reyf is a journalist who specializes in ecology and global development. Dr. Danilov-Danilian works on the economics of nature management, economic and mathematical model building, sustainable development theory and ecology. Dr Losev is the chief researcher and head of the division of the VINITI. All the authors have published numerous papers, articles and books on such subjects as glaciology, hydrology, environment studies, global change and sustainable development.
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