Radiation

Resources

• body surface area, online calculators
  • Advanced Body Surface Area Calculator, Steven B. Halls
    • Vu, Thanh. Standardization of Body Surface Area Calculations. Cross Cancer Institute. Summer 1999.
  • Body Surface Area Calculator, Evelio Perez-Albuerne
• body surface area, original sources
  • The Growth of the Surface Area of the Human Body. Edith Boyd. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1935.
  • A Linear Equation for Estimating the Body Surface Area in Infants and Children. Current, John D. Internet Journal of Anesthesiology., Vol. 2 No. 2 (1 April 1998).
  • A Formula to Estimate the Approximate Surface Area if Height and Weight be Known. Delafield Dubois & Eugene F. Dubois. Archives of Internal Medicine., Vol. 17 (1916): 863–71.
  • Estimation of Human Body Surface Area from Height and Weight. E.A. Gehan & S.L. George. Cancer Chemotherapy Report., Vol. 54 No. 4 (1970): 225–35.
  • Geometric Method for Measuring Body Surface Area: a Height-Weight Formula Validated in Infants, Children, and Adults. George B. Haycock, George J. Schwartz, & David H. Wisotsky. Journal of Pediatrics., Vol. 93 No. 1 (1978): 62–66.
  • Simplified Calculation of Body-Surface Area. Russell D. Mosteller. New England Journal of Medicine., Vol. 317 No. 17 (22 October 1987): 1098.
  • Estimating the Surface Area of the Human Body. B.J.R. Bailey & G.L. Brairs Statistics in Medicine., Vol. 15 (1996): 1325–1332. The authors recommend that the Gehan & George formula in logarithmic form be adopted as the standard.
• dyson sphere
  • Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation, Freeman J. Dyson, Science. Vol. 131, no. 3414 (3 June 1960): 1667–1668.
  • Dyson Sphere FAQ Sanders, Andberg; et al.
  • SETI Articles, compiled at the Island One Society website
  • Alien megaprojects: The hunt has begun. Stephen Battersby. New Scientist. (9 April 2013): 42–45.
• greenhouse effect
  • svante arrhenius
    • "Ueber den Einfluss des Atmosphärischen Kohlensäurengehalts auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche." Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. Vol. 22, No. 1 (1896): 1–101.
    • "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground." Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. Vol 41 (April 1896): 237–275.
    • "Ueber die Wärmeabsorption durch Kohlensäure." Annalen der Physik. Vol 4 (1901): 690–705.
    • "Über Die Wärmeabsorption Durch Kohlensäure Und Ihren Einfluss Auf Die Temperatur Der Erdoberfläche." Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Science. Vol. 58 (1901): 25–58.
  • atmospheric CO₂
    • The Keeling Curve Turns 50, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
    • The concentration and isotopic abundance of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Charles D. Keeling. Tellus, Vol. 12 No. 2 (June 1960): 200–203.
  • data, climate
    • Hadley Centre, Met Office
    • Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
    • National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • data, proxy
    • Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries. Michael E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley & Malcolm K. Hughes. Nature., Vol. 392 (23 April 1998).
    • EPICA Dome C Ice Core Data, National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
    • Stable Carbon Cycle–Climate Relationship During the Late Pleistocene. Siegenthaler, Urs; et al. Science., Vol. 310 No. 5752 (25 November 2005): 1313–17.
  • global circulation models (GCM)
    • Thermal equilibrium of the atmosphere with a given distribution of relative humidity. Syukuro Manabe and Richard Wetherald. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 24, 241–259 (1967).
    • A Global Ocean-Atmosphere Climate Model. Part I. The Atmospheric Circulation. Syukuro Manabe, Kirk Bryan, and Michael J. Spelman. Journal of Physical Oceanography., Vol. 5 (1975): 3-29.
    • Global climate changes as forecast by Goddard Institute for Space Studies three-dimensional model. James Hansen, et al. Journal of Geophysical Research., Vol. 93 (1988): 9341–9364.
    • The First Climate Model, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (22 May 2008)
  • scientific consensus
    • The scientific consensus on climate change. Naomi Oreskes. Science. Vol. 306 No. 5702 (2004): 1686.
    • Examining the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change. Peter T. Doran, Maggie Kendall Zimmerman. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. Vol. 90 No. 3 (January 2009): 22–23.
    • Expert credibility in climate change. William R.L. Anderegg, James W. Prall, Jacob Harold, and Stephen H. Schneider. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 107 No. 27 (July 2010): 12107–12109.
    • Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature. John Cook, Dana Nuccitelli, Sarah A. Green, Mark Richardson, Bärbel Winkler, Rob Painting, Robert Way, Peter Jacobs, Andrew Skuce. Environmental Research Letters. Vol. 8 No. 2 (April–June 2013): 024024.
  • etc.
    • The Discovery of Global Warming, Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics
    • An Inconvenient Truth climatecrisis.net
    • The real holes in climate science. Quirin Schiermeier. Nature., Vol. 436 (20 January 2010): 284–287.
• home construction
  • Efficient Windows Collaborative
  • Cool Colours: A new paint can cool your home in summer and warm it up in winter, New Scientist, 18 April 2001.
  • Windows & Daylighting, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• thermography
  • FLIR Systems, infrared cameras
  • Infrared, Inc., infrared cameras and services
  • Snell Infrared, resources for thermographers
• miscellaneous
  • Heat loss in Dumbo: a theoretical approach. Phillips, P.K. & J.E. Heath. Journal of Thermal Biology., Vol. 26 No. 2. (2001): 117–120.

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