Radiation can be defined as a process whereby energy (or heat) is transferred by some sort of wave motion. Wave motion varies according to the length of the waves concerned. Thus, related to the title, solar radiation is short wave…
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When the temperatures turn mild, the snow starts to melt, and spring is finally on the doorstep! However, when the temperatures go up too quickly, all that winter snowpack tries to melt all at once. That’s not good for anyone….
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It’s safe to say that nearly everyone has seen, or at least heard of, Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth addressing the depleting Planet Earth. Pollution, the controversial issue of global warming, and product waste, are only the beginning to the problems…
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While any accumulation of snow can be termed a snowpack, the primary study and concern of snowpacks are typically in mountainous regions, such as the American Rocky Mountains and usually concern themselves with elevations above 3,000 feet. Even arid regions…
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You hear their roar long before you see them. As you draw nearer, you feel the mist on your face, perhaps slip on wet rocks, and often claim a rainbow as a reward. Even a small waterfall can be thrilling…
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When most people think about snowflakes they typically think about the white stuff falling from the sky in the winter or the beautiful patterns of individual snowflakes. But what exactly are snowflakes? Some people think that snowflakes are frozen rain,…
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It should be a really easy answer. What are the tallest waterfalls in the world? So first, I will give you the easy answer and then we’ll look at some of the issues with classifying waterfalls. 1. Angel Falls ~…
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Christmas 2004 was a time people around the world were not soon to forget. By the time December 26th was over, a tsunami would pound the coasts of eight nations, destroying homes and businesses and killing 157,577 people. An additional…
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The uses of potable water should be only for drinking, for cooking and for washing vegetables for ourselves and for our animals. Of course, we do not want to bathe or wash in contaminated water so we use potable water…
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“The river … fell in one sheet of water, without any interval, above half an English mile in breadth, with a force and a noise that was truly terrible, and which stunned and made me, for a time, perfectly dizzy….
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