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Atmosphere above huge fire areas (e.g., “fire ocean”)? [closed]
My question is more about climate sciences, but I hope that it is still related to physics.
What would be possible atmospheric conditions for planet with some kind of "fire" ocean?
I had some ...
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x-ray interaction with atmosphere
Why x-ray are stopped by atmosphere while they are more energetic than UV or IR?
They certainly interact with atmosphere but I can't understand which phenomenon stop them.
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Lightning Power?
What is the power source of a lightning? It doesn't consume fuel, nor an atomic fission/fusion, but it discharges a large amount of energy. Is it feasible to create an artificial lightning using the ...
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Are there convective movements similar to those in clouds everywhere in the atmosphere?
I heard there were powerful convective movements in clouds which were responsible for increasing the size of water droplets or ice crystals. My question is: do the same movements appear outside of ...
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range of infrared light
I notice in the EMS chart that only half of the IR range will travel through the earth's atmosphere. So in the range of frequencies that penetrate the atmosphere what frequency travels farthest?
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Hail stones in summer?
This has always puzzled me. Yesterday (in London) it started hailing despite it being about $20^oC$. A couple of years ago I experienced hail in Sicily when it was about $35^oC$ in the shade!. How is ...
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Ozone Hole in the South Pole
Perhaps this should be a chemistry question, but it seems to have physics attributes. There's a perennial ozone "hole" around the south pole created by destruction from Cl based chemicals like CFCs. ...
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Why don't different air masses mix immediately?
In meteorology, the atmosphere is considered to be divided into air masses, regions of relatively uniform temperature and humidity with fronts on their borders. But why doesn't the air from different ...
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How can I calculate Vapor Pressure Deficit from Temperature and Relative Humidity?
I have a series of measurements of temperature and relative humidity (RH), together with mosquito capture data. Because mosquitoes are sensitive to desiccation, it's reasonable that RH may be useful ...
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logarithmic wind speed profile
Under some atmospheric stability condition, over flat terrain, it has been observed for a while that the ratio between wind speed at height $h_1$ above the earth and the wind speed at height $h_0$ is ...
