Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 9Astronomical Society of the Pacific., 1897 |
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... mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat - absorbing gases in the atmosphere ? FOURIER maintained that the atmosphere acts like the glass of a hot - house , because it lets through the light - rays of ...
... mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat - absorbing gases in the atmosphere ? FOURIER maintained that the atmosphere acts like the glass of a hot - house , because it lets through the light - rays of ...
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... mean effective tem- perature " of about 45 ° C. The air retains heat ( light or dark ) in two different ways . On the one hand , the heat suffers a selective diffusion on its passage through the air ; on the other hand , some of the ...
... mean effective tem- perature " of about 45 ° C. The air retains heat ( light or dark ) in two different ways . On the one hand , the heat suffers a selective diffusion on its passage through the air ; on the other hand , some of the ...
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... mean quantity of carbonic acid in the air reaches 0.03 vol . per cent . , this number represents 0.045 per cent . by weight , or 0.342 millim . partial pressure , or 0.466 gramme of carbonic acid for every cm.2 of the Earth's surface ...
... mean quantity of carbonic acid in the air reaches 0.03 vol . per cent . , this number represents 0.045 per cent . by weight , or 0.342 millim . partial pressure , or 0.466 gramme of carbonic acid for every cm.2 of the Earth's surface ...
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... of very great interest , as it proves that the most important of all the processes by means of which carbonic acid has been removed 3 from the atmosphere in all times — namely , the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . 19.
... of very great interest , as it proves that the most important of all the processes by means of which carbonic acid has been removed 3 from the atmosphere in all times — namely , the Astronomical Society of the Pacific . 19.
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... means of which carbonic acid has in all times been supplied to the atmosphere . From these we may well conclude that enormous variations have occurred , but not that the variation has always proceeded in the same direction ...
... means of which carbonic acid has in all times been supplied to the atmosphere . From these we may well conclude that enormous variations have occurred , but not that the variation has always proceeded in the same direction ...
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aperture April Arcturian Astronomical Society Atlas atmosphere August Board of Directors bright BRUCE Medal C. D. PERRINE Capellan carbonic acid catalogue comet Comet-Medal Committee Committee-Messrs constellation December Decl Declination degrees eastward diameter dome eclipse EDWARD equatorial F. R. ZIEL feet Greenwich Hamilton Harvard College Observatory HOLDEN inches instruments interstellar medium January July June Jupiter latitude LEWIS SWIFT Library Lick Observatory longitude magnitude March Mars meeting Mercury meridian Messrs meteor minutes Miss O'HALLORAN MOLERA month Moon morning star motion Mount Hamilton moves nebulæ Neptune November Oakland observations October Pacific penumbra photographic planets plates President prisms Prof Professor proper-motion Publications quantity of carbonic R. G. AITKEN San Francisco Saturn SCHAEBERLE Secretary seen Sept September Shadow touching Sirian solar spectra spectroscope sun-spot telescope tion Transit umbra University Observatory Uranus Venus W. H. S. MONCK WILLIAM ALVORD Yerkes Observatory Yerkes telescope ΙΟ