scholarly journals IX. Transmission of sunlight through the Earth's atmosphere

It will be in the recollection of the Royal Society that early last year General Festing and myself brought forward a method of colour photometry, which is described in a paper in the ‘Phil. T rans.' 1886. In a postscript, dated June, we added a description of a somewhat modified apparatus in which any variation in the intensity of the light producing the spectrum under measurement was equally reproduced in the comparison-light.

The researches on glaciers which I have had the honour of submitting from time to time to the notice of the Royal Society, directed my attention in a special manner to the observations and speculations of De Saussure, Fourier, M. Pouillet, and Mr. Hopkins, on the transmission of solar and terrestrial heat through the earth’s atmosphere. This gave practical effect to a desire which I had previously entertained to make the mutual action of radiant heat and gases of all kinds the subject of an experimental inquiry. Our acquaintance with this department of Physics is exceedingly limited. So far as my knowledge extends, the literature of the subject may be stated in a few words.


Author(s):  
Michael I. Budyko ◽  
Alexander B. Ronov ◽  
Alexander L. Yanshin

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A. NIKOLAYEV ◽  
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A. M. Mebel ◽  
V. N. Azyazov ◽  
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This research is devoted to the problem of environmental pollution. The study of various pathways that reduce emissions of fuel combustion products into the Earth's atmosphere is still applicable today.


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