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4 - Feeling the Heat

1920 to 1963

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2018

Ralph D. Lorenz
Ralph D. Lorenz
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The Johns Hopkins University
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Chronicles the dust bowl and the recognition of catastrophic outflows at end of last ice age. Callendar's recognition of the growing CO2 abundance and rising temperatures and the link between the two. Development of computers, radio telescopes. Remote measurement of the temperature of Venus, speculations about what might make it so hot. Efforts to measure water vapor in the atmospheres of Mars and Venus from balloons.
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Exploring Planetary Climate
A History of Scientific Discovery on Earth, Mars, Venus and Titan
 , pp. 63 - 82
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Feeling the Heat
  • Ralph D. Lorenz, The Johns Hopkins University
  • Book: Exploring Planetary Climate
  • Online publication: 14 December 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108677691.006
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  • Feeling the Heat
  • Ralph D. Lorenz, The Johns Hopkins University
  • Book: Exploring Planetary Climate
  • Online publication: 14 December 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108677691.006
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  • Feeling the Heat
  • Ralph D. Lorenz, The Johns Hopkins University
  • Book: Exploring Planetary Climate
  • Online publication: 14 December 2018
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108677691.006
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