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• 1.万物简史 第373期:进入对流层(14)
• However, for reasons unknown he calibrated the instrument in a way that put freezing at 32 degrees and boiling at 212 degrees. From the outset this nu...
• 2.万物简史 第372期:进入对流层(13)
• The standard way to envision this is to imagine yourself at the center of a large carousel and tossing a ball to someone positioned on the edge. By th...
• 3.万物简史 第371期:进入对流层(12)
• Though a lawyer by profession, Hadley had a keen interest in the weather (he was, after all, English) and also suggested a link between his cells, the...
• 4.万物简史 第370期:进入对流层(11)
• What we do know is that because heat from the Sun is unevenly distributed, differences in air pressure arise on the planet. Air can't abide this, so i...
• 5.万物简史 第369期:进入对流层(10)
• At the equator the convection process is generally stable and the weather predictably fair, but in temperate zones the patterns are far more seasonal,...
• 6.万物简史 第368期:进入对流层(9)
• Jet streams, usually located about 30,000 to 35,000 feet up, can bowl along at up to 180 miles an hour and vastly influence weather systems over whole...
• 7.万物简史 第367期:进入对流层(8)
• Certainly there is no shortage of energy in the world above our heads. One thunderstorm, it has been calculated, can contain an amount of energy equiv...
• 8.万物简史 第366期:进入对流层(7)
• Air is deceptive stuff. Even at sea level, we tend to think of the air as being ethereal and all but weightless. In fact, it has plenty of bulk, and t...
• 9.万物简史 第365期:进入对流层(6)
• People who habitually live at altitude have often spent thousands of years developing disproportionately large chests and lungs, increasing their dens...
• 10.万物简史 第364期:进入对流层(5)
• In The Other Side of Everest, the British mountaineer and filmmaker Matt Dickinson records how Howard Somervell, 在《珠穆朗玛峰的另一侧》中，英国登山...