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The Fahrenheit scale was named after Gabriel D. Fahrenheit who lived from 1686 to 1736. He devised a way of measuring temperature. The Celsius scale was named after Anders Celsius, its inventor, who lived from 1701-1744. The Celsius scale is also called Centigrade. The Centi in centigrade ...
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Temperature
Celsius (°C), although in the United States, the Fahrenheit (°F) is still in use. The Celsius scale is fixed by two points, the freezing and boiling point of water, which at normal atmospheric pressure are 0°C and 100°C respectively. The scale ...
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FMI - FAQ - Frequently asked questions - Temperature
Celsius used rather than Fahrenheit? The Finnish Meteorological Institute uses Celsius scale instead of Fahrenheit. World Meteorological Organization, WMO for short, has agreed on a standard for temperature measurement which is Celsius. Celsius scale ...
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CRU Information Sheet no. 2: The Causes of Climatic Change
Celsius. The effect lasts for a year or two. Major eruptions have ... in global climate. Climate variability can also be generated by smaller-scale changes in the energy balance – the balance between heat received and ... rise and fall of a couple of tenths of a degree Celsius every few years. The El Niño Southern Oscillation phenomenon is “the ...
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Global Climate Change: Research Explorer: Primer : Overview of Climate Change Research
The scale represents degrees in Celsius. Negative numbers represent cooling, and positive numbers depict warming. You can think of ...
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Global Climate Change: Research Explorer - Sea Surface Temperatures
Celsius. The bottom map shows how five-day average temperatures differ from expected averages; colors correspond ... of each arrow corresponds to wind speed. The arrow beneath the top map shows a scale for wind speed of 10 meters/second, approximately equal to 20 knots. Observing and monitoring ...
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Books from the Earth Policy Institute
But in sheer number and scale these events are now reaching a point where they may soon have a global effect ... U.S. Department of Agriculture have developed a rule of thumb that each 1-degree-Celsius rise in temperature during the growing season reduces grain yields by 10 percent. Falling water ...
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Books from the Earth Policy Institute
In scores of countries, converging ecological deficits are undermining local economies on a scale that has no precedent. In The Reader, the authors examine the economic costs of these ... also suffered from high temperatures, including a heat wave in which temperatures reached 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) in May, killing more than 1,000 people in the state of ...
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FMI - Research - Atmosphere - Ozone and UV radiation
According to stratospheric temperature observations made in Finland, temperatures lower than -78 degrees Celsius, which are conducive to ozone loss, have so far been occurring more frequently than ... protective pigment. In contrast to this, young growing needles suffer easily. On a global scale, half of the carbon annually bound up in biological assimilation is produced by plankton ...
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Super Scientists - Anders Celsius
Anders Celsius Anders Celsius (1701-1744) Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician who is famous for the temperature scale he developed. Celsius was born in Uppsala where he succeeded his father ... . This scale, an inverted form of Celsius' original design, was adopted as the standard and is still used in almost all scientific work. More about Anders Celsius Anders Celsius -- Uppsala ...
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