Radiation

Resources

• Body surface area, online calculators
  • Body surface area calculator for medication doses. Steven B. Halls.
  • 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. John D. Current. Internet Journal of Anesthesiology. Vol. 2 No. 2 (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 (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 (1960): 1667–1668. An openware html copy of this article with reader responses is available on the SETI Articles page at the Island One Society website.
  • Dyson Sphere FAQ. Andberg Sanders, et al.
  • Alien megaprojects: The hunt has begun. Stephen Battersby. New Scientist. (2013): 42–45.
• Greenhouse effect
  • John Tyndall
    • The Bakerian Lecture: On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction. John Tyndall. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 151 (1861): 1–36.
    • On the origin of 'the greenhouse effect': John Tyndall's 1859 interrogation of nature. Mike Hulme. Weather. Vol. 64 No. 5 (2009).
  • Svante Arrhenius
    • Ueber den Einfluss des Atmosphärischen Kohlensäurengehalts auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche. Konglinga Svenska Vetenskapsacademiens Handlingar. 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 (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. Konglinga Svenska Vetenskapsacademiens Handlingar. 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 (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. Urs Siegenthaler, et al. Science. Vol. 310 No. 5752 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (2010): 284–287.
• Historical
  • Wien's displacement law
    • Die obere Grenze der Wellenlängen, welche in der Wärmestrahlung fester Körper vorkommen können; Folgerungen aus dem zweiten Hauptsatz der Wärmetheorie. Wilhelm (Willy) Wien. Annalen der Physik. 49 [285], (1893): 633–641 [open access copy].
    • Temperatur und Entropie der Strahlung. Wilhelm (Willy) Wien. Annalen der Physik. Vol. 288 No. 5 (1894): 132–165 [open access copy].
    • Ueber die Energievertheilung im Emissionsspectrum eines schwarzen Körpers. Wilhelm (Willy) Wien. Annalen der Physik. Vol. 294 No. 8 (1896): 662–669 [open access copy].
• Home construction
  • Efficient Windows Collaborative
  • Cool Colours: A new paint can cool your home in summer and warm it up in winter, New Scientist (2001).
  • Windows & Daylighting. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
• Radiometer
  • Radiometer Tie Pin. Objectivity #4. YouTube (2015). Videographer Brady Haran and head librarian at The Royal Society Keith Moore examine some interesting variations of radiometers, as invented by Sir William Crookes, former President of The Royal Society.
• 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.
  • inFact: How to Tell if Global Warming Is Real. Brian Dunning (2013)