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... to detect climate changes . Liquid rain appears easy to measure , one needs only a rain gauge that is mounted well away from any overhanging tree branch or wall . Measuring snowfall is much more difficult and can be accomplished 22 WEATHER.
... to detect climate changes . Liquid rain appears easy to measure , one needs only a rain gauge that is mounted well away from any overhanging tree branch or wall . Measuring snowfall is much more difficult and can be accomplished 22 WEATHER.
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... measure requires that a level surface be measured and then promptly cleared of snow every hour during the storm . Failure to observe this procedure , day and night , always results in a spuriously low register because snow compacts over ...
... measure requires that a level surface be measured and then promptly cleared of snow every hour during the storm . Failure to observe this procedure , day and night , always results in a spuriously low register because snow compacts over ...
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... measurements , made before strict standardization rules were formed and put into practice . Yet , unlike the measure of snowfall , where any mis- take reduces the snow measured from the correct value , here to some ex- tent we can ...
... measurements , made before strict standardization rules were formed and put into practice . Yet , unlike the measure of snowfall , where any mis- take reduces the snow measured from the correct value , here to some ex- tent we can ...
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Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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