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American Sunshine
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 32.00In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and... more...
The Hamilton-Type Principle in Fluid Dynamics
Springer 2006; US$ 94.99Describes Fluid Dynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics, and Classical Thermodynamics as branches of Lagrange's Analytical Mechanics. This book formulates a Hamilton-Type Variational Principle as the proper mathematical technique for the theoretical description of the dynamic state of any fluid. more...
An Introduction To Solar Radiation
Elsevier Science 1983; US$ 69.50An Introduction To Solar Radiation more...
Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth's Surface
Springer 2008; US$ 139.99Solar radiation data is important for a wide range of applications, e.g. in engineering, agriculture, health sector, and in many fields of the natural sciences. A few examples showing the diversity of applications may include: architecture and building design e.g. air conditioning and cooling systems; solar heating system design and use; solar power... more...
Short-Wave Solar Radiation in the Earth¿s Atmosphere
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 139.99Based on data from an experiment which ran for ten years, this book summarizes the results of the Atmospheric Physics Department of the St. Petersburg University and the Main Geophysical Observatory. The processed data now forms a rich dataset of spectral values of radiative characteristics under different atmospheric conditions. The analysis of this... more...
The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)
Springer 2007; US$ 129.99The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) is a small satellite, carrying four scientific instruments to measure the solar radiation incident. This collection of papers describes the SORCE mission, goals, spacecraft, instrument development and calibration, science implications on how the Sun influences Earth's environment, and others. more...
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