Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 9Astronomical Society of the Pacific., 1897 |
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... present place to give more than the shortest abstract . - E . S. H. ] I. Introduction : Observations of LANGLEY on Atmospheric Absorption . " A great deal has been written on the influence of the absorption of the atmosphere upon the ...
... present place to give more than the shortest abstract . - E . S. H. ] I. Introduction : Observations of LANGLEY on Atmospheric Absorption . " A great deal has been written on the influence of the absorption of the atmosphere upon the ...
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... present in the same regions . * The temperature in the arctic zones appears to have exceeded the present temperature by about eight or nine degrees . To this genial time the ice age succeeded , and this was one or more times interrupted ...
... present in the same regions . * The temperature in the arctic zones appears to have exceeded the present temperature by about eight or nine degrees . To this genial time the ice age succeeded , and this was one or more times interrupted ...
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... present value . In order to get the tempera- ture of the ice age between the fortieth and fiftieth parallels , the carbonic acid in the air should sink to 0.62-0.55 of its present value ( lowering of temperature 4 ° -5 ° C. ) . The ...
... present value . In order to get the tempera- ture of the ice age between the fortieth and fiftieth parallels , the carbonic acid in the air should sink to 0.62-0.55 of its present value ( lowering of temperature 4 ° -5 ° C. ) . The ...
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... present time , have effaced the differences in temperature at different latitudes to a greater extent than in the Northern hemisphere . This effect also results from the greater nebulosity in the arctic zones than in the neighborhood of ...
... present time , have effaced the differences in temperature at different latitudes to a greater extent than in the Northern hemisphere . This effect also results from the greater nebulosity in the arctic zones than in the neighborhood of ...
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... present production of coal reaches , in round numbers , 500 millions . of tons per annum , or one ton per km.2 of the Earth's surface . Transformed into carbonic acid , this quantity would correspond to about a thousandth part of the ...
... present production of coal reaches , in round numbers , 500 millions . of tons per annum , or one ton per km.2 of the Earth's surface . Transformed into carbonic acid , this quantity would correspond to about a thousandth part of the ...
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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