INDEX 239
Thomson effect, 125
total solar irradiance, 170
transmittance, 182
troposphere, 4
ultraviolet catastrophe, 199
Van ’t Hoff factor, 132
Van der Waals force, 52
Van der Waals’ equation, 10, 50
vapour pressure, 97
virial expansion, 53
viscous dissipation, 208
warm clouds, 150
water-vapour feedback, 173
wet bulb temperature, 101
from Normand’s construction, 119
wide-band models, 166
Wien displacement law, 169
thermodynamic derivation, 193
Wien distribution law, 199
Wilson cloud chamber, 140
work, 17
output, 214, 225
zenith angle, 175
