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Sensors for Greenhouse Study
A group and I have the opportunity to design a payload that will be sent up some 100,000 ft (~ 30 km) into the atmosphere for approximately 3 hours. In our design, we were going to include gas sensors ...
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Equations for the two-plane model of the greenhouse effect
I'm trying to understand this "toy model" of the greenhouse effect.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/04/learning-from-a-simple-model
The model predicts the surface temperature of ...
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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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During an Ice Age, would someone at moderate latitude get a sunburn/suntan on a sunny day?
Let's say you live at a moderate (temperate, in today's terms) latitude during the last glacial maximum. You're probably in some kind of steppe or taiga biome, even though you're at 40 degrees north, ...
