Fifteenth century earth science

The earth science content of two late medieval encyclopedias, the Mirrour of the World and Higden's Polychronicon, both printed by William Caxton in the 1480's, is examined in relation to fifteenth century ideas about the physical nature of the earth and the universe. Such topics as the four elements, the earth and the spheres, location of Hell and Paradise, the arrangement of , continents and oceans, the unity of waters, earthquakes and volcanoes, erosion, fossils and mountain building, climatic zones and weather phenomena are summarized and reference made to the Biblical and Classical Greek sources of these ideas

Aristotle on Kosmos and Kosmoi

The concept of kosmos did not play the leading role in Aristotle’s physics that it did in Pythagorean, Atomistic, Platonic, or Stoic physics. Although Aristotle greatly influenced the history of cosmology, he does not himself recognize a science of cosmology, a science taking the kosmos itself as the object of study with its own phenomena to be explained and its own principles that explain them. The term kosmos played an important role in two aspects of his predecessor’s accounts that Aristotle rejected: first, cosmogeny and kosmopoiia, generation or creation of the kosmos; second, diakosmêsis, arranging of a plurality of kosmoi. Aristotle was extremely critical of accounts involving kosmopoiia and diakosmêsis and he developed general dialectical strategies against them. In emphatically distinguishing his view from all his predecessors (including Plato), he uses the terms ho ouranos (the heaven), to holon (the whole), and to pan (the totality) in preference to ho kosmos (the kosmos or world). There is usually no harm in speaking loosely of ‘Aristotle’s cosmology’ when referring to his concept of the order of nature and the ouranos. Nevertheless, Aristotle’s theoretical philosophy offers something very different from those of his predecessors for whom kosmos was a keyword

Accuracy, reproducibility and vertical resolution of data from radiosondes

In a comparison of three radiosonde-systems typical data deviations as well as their reproducibility could be determined. Basic considerations regarding a possible vertical resolution are followed by a suggestion as to how the ascent velocity of the balloon could be utilized to determine vertical winds

Dati meteorologici di Trieste - Anno 2016

Sono descritti gli strumenti in uso presso la Stazione Meteorologica di Trieste del Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze (DMG) e le modalit\ue0 di assunzione dei dati. Sono riportati i dati meteorologici giornalieri di pressione atmosferica, temperatura dell\u2019aria, umidit\ue0 relativa, velocit\ue0 del vento, precipitazioni e irradianza solare globale relativi all\u2019anno 2016

An experiment on the quantitative description of climatic element field by orthogonal functions

Quantitative description of climatic element field by orthogonal function

La stazione meteorologica di Padriciano \u2013 AREA : dati 2011-2016

Sono descritti gli strumenti e le modalit\ue0 di acquisizione, validazione e archiviazione dei dati della stazione meteorologica situata all\u2019Area Science Park di Padriciano (Trieste). Sono inoltre pubblicati i dati giornalieri, mensili e annui relativi alla pressione atmosferica, alla temperatura dell\u2019aria, all\u2019umidit\ue0 relativa e alle precipitazioni per gli anni dal 2011 al 2016

In the Driver's Seat: Rico and Education

The Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) field campaign carried out a wide array of educational activities, including a major first in a field project—a complete mission, including research flights, planned and executed entirely by students. This article describes the educational opportunities provided to the 24 graduate and 9 undergraduate students who participated in RICO