4 résultats pour "raindrops"
- Rain. I INTRODUCTION Rain, precipitation of liquid drops of water. Raindrops generally have
- «Raindrops keep falling on my head »
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Lightning.
In the U.S. about 100 persons are killed and many injured by lightning each year, more than by tornadoes or hurricanes. Forty percent of all farm fires and 75,000forest fires a year are started by lightning. Lightning is not all bad, however. The soil is enriched with nitrogen that is released from the atmosphere by lightning andcarried to the ground by raindrops. Some scientists believe that lightning may have been a key element in the origin of life on earth, creating from simple elementscompl...
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Meteorology.
to find the corresponding relative humidity and dew-point temperature. III SPECIAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS Meteorologists have developed several sophisticated instruments that measure multiple physical characteristics of the air simultaneously and at more than one location.The most important of these special instruments are radiosondes, Doppler radar, and weather satellites. A Radiosonde A radiosonde measures air temperature, air pressure, and humidity from the earth’s surface up to an alt...