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THE first and decisive cause of nearly all physical phenomena occurring in the terrestrial atmosphere is the solar heat. The atmosphere may therefore be considered an immense heat machine, of which the sun is the focus; the boiler is represented by the soil or the clouds heated by its rays, and the condenser by the radiation towards the interplanetary space.
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CORNU, A. Physical Phenomena of the High Regions of the Atmospheres1. Nature 53, 588–592 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053588a0
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