Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming
=How Atmospheres Are Formed.= Once there were no such things on the earth as hills and mountains, singing brooks, roaring rivers and vast oceans; and the delicately hued landscape, with its winding roads, hedges, flowers, green fields, and golden grain, had not evolved from th...
=How Atmospheres Are Formed.= Once there were no such things on the earth as hills and mountains, singing brooks, roaring rivers and vast oceans; and the delicately hued landsca...
2. CHAPTER IIHow much do you know of the great aërial ocean on the bottom of which you live and in which human beings are just beginning to fly? Its variations of heat, cold, sunshine, cloud...
3. CHAPTER IIIAn entire new world is coming within the range of man’s vision. Its possibilities for adding to the health and happiness of mankind are almost limitless. The geographic poles ha...
4. CHAPTER IVThe earth has four important atmospheres and others of less importance. The principal ones are oxygen, nitrogen, vapor of water, and carbon dioxide, each comporting itself as it...
5. CHAPTER VThe heat that escapes from the earth’s interior is minute in comparison to that received from the sun, which is the main source of the earth’s supply. Heat is manifested by the...
6. CHAPTER VI=Observations from Kites.= It is strange that the Chinese, who have been flying kites many thousand years, should not have made improvements in the primitive construction of the...
7. CHAPTER VIIThere is nothing in the study of the atmosphere that so intimately concerns the horticulturist and the gardener as knowledge of the conditions under which frost forms, and the m...
8. CHAPTER VIII=General Circulation.= Differences in temperature, changing the specific gravity of the air, are the cause of the general circulation of the atmosphere about the earth, modified...
9. CHAPTER IXThe person who will take the time to learn to interpret the daily weather map has a decided advantage over those who are less progressive. The maps may be secured by applying to...
10. CHAPTER XCHANGE OF SOLAR RAYS INTO LIGHT, HEAT, AND OTHER FORMS OF ENERGY AS THEY ARE ABSORBED BY OUR ATMOSPHERE OR AS THEY ENCOUNTER THE EARTH—TEMPERATURES OF WATER, EARTH, AND AIR—HOW...
11. CHAPTER XIIf the surface of the earth were all land, and the axis of the earth’s rotation were perpendicular to the plane of the earth’s orbit, the day and the night would be equal everyw...
12. CHAPTER XIIIn a climate where man needs little protection from the elements, where he may lie upon his back in the shade and with his bare toes pick wild growing fruit to nourish his body,...
13. CHAPTER XIIIOne of the hallucinations entertained by nearly every adult person is that the climate has changed since he was young. No matter what the scientists may say, he knows that it ha...
14. CHAPTER XIVFrom what has gone before it is apparent that the regions of the earth where man is at his best estate, so far as climate can determine his environment, may be broadly defined i...
15. CHAPTER XV=Haze= is what might be called diluted cloud or fog; it differs from them only in the degree of its density. One may see several miles through a haze, because the minute particl...
16. CHAPTER XVIEven to those who are familiar with the application of meteorological science to the making of weather forecasts, and with the material benefits accruing to the commerce and ind...