| Charles Greeley Abbot - 1911 - 542 pages
...1910, and Mount Whitney observations of 1909, 1910, all corrected to the absolute scale of heal, 1 the total intensity of solar radiation outside the...atmosphere at the earth's mean distance from the sun (called the "solar constant" of radiation), 1 Values published in Volume II of the Annals of Astrophysical... | |
| 1925 - 132 pages
...by the wind ; generally muff-shaped. Soft hail. — Graupel. Solar constant of radiation.- — The intensity of solar radiation outside the earth's atmosphere at the earth's mean distance from the sun. Recent investigations indicate that this intensity may vary and that its mean value is 1.938 gram-calories... | |
| John Charles Duncan - 1926 - 474 pages
...upon a surface one centimeter square, if the surface were exposed perpendicularly to the Sun's rays outside the Earth's atmosphere, at the Earth's mean distance from the Sun. Its value, according to the most generally accepted determinations, averages 1.94, but varies by about... | |
| Benarthur Castle Haynes - 1940 - 220 pages
...(snow-flakes). Soft hail. — White, opaque, round pellets of snow. Solar constant of radiation. — The intensity of solar radiation outside the earth's atmosphere at the earth's mean distance from the sun. Recent investigations indicate that this intensity may vary and that its mean value is 1.94 gram-calories... | |
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