Footnote 3: Pouillet’s estimate of the rate of solar radiation is here taken.
Not even that length of time would be actually available; for this period is founded on Pouillet’s estimate of the rate of solar radiation, which has been proved by Langley to be too small, the correct rate being 1·7 times greater.
Especially important to the agricultural and vineyard interests of Argentina is the question of precipitation, and Clayton finds this very dependent on solar radiation.
Abbot, has for many years carried on at a number of stations a series of determinations of the constant of solar radiation by the spectro-bolometric method originated by Langley.
The importance of solar radiation in the prediction of terrestrial weather has long been recognized, but until very recently no practical application has been made.
Another climatic paradox is that experienced by mountaineers who, in scaling peaks mantled in eternal snow, often suffer with the heat, on account of the intensity of solar radiation in the pure, dry air of high altitudes.
Negretti & Zambra's maximum thermometer, for registering the greatest heat of the sun's direct rays, hence called a solar radiation thermometer.
Cloudy, or humid days, diminish the effect upon the soil of solar radiation; similar nights retard the radiation from the earth.
It is, therefore, important to have instruments for measuring the efficacy of solar radiation, apart from those for exhibiting the temperature of the place in the shade.
This is but a small selection from many instances of the extraordinary power of solar radiation in the coldest months, at great elevations.
The power of terrestrial, like that of solar radiation, increases with the elevation, but not in an equal proportion.
Such a frozen fog is an effective reflector of solar radiation.
The existing abnormal changes, which we call weather, have their origins chiefly, if not entirely, in the variations of solar radiation.
Before considering in detail these results of the action of solar radiation on our globe, an attempt to realize the immensity of this stupendous force will materially aid in the general comprehension of the subject.
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