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  • noun Plural form of radiance.

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Examples

  • Colors and radiances surrounded him and bathed him and pervaded him.

    Chapter 46 2010

  • And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human creatures, his brothers in Jesus

    Les Miserables 2008

  • I saw the radiances of Jupiter and Saturn, spinning, with incredible swiftness, in huge orbits.

    The House on the Borderland 2007

  • These “in between particles” act to enhance radiances and aerosol optical depth around clouds and throughout a zone extending 10-20 km from the nearest cloud.

    Unthreaded #10 « Climate Audit 2007

  • How does the model handle in-situ data with the inclusion of satellite radiances (or temp retrievals), winds (GOES, scat), etc?

    YTD Hurricane Activity « Climate Audit 2007

  • As a consequence, a great meany of the candidate profile solutions that would be physically consistent with the ovserved radiances exhibit wild oscillations that are completely inconsistent with any reasonable temperature structure of the atmosphere.

    Unthreaded #21 « Climate Audit 2007

  • Under the combined blaze of their radiances, the wilderness that stretched before me, became steadily more visible.

    The House on the Borderland 2007

  • This record, in turn, was derived from “the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project ISCCP DX radiance data set,” which is “composed of calibrated and sampled Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer radiances.”

    On to Gridded Data « Climate Audit 2007

  • It has been decided that the best metric for climate is satellite collected, long and shortwave, spectrally resolved radiances.

    Scientific Misconduct « Climate Audit 2005

  • A few of the torches still flared in their sockets, the phosphorescent glow throbbed and quivered, and the river flowed with an almost articulate muttering, scintillant with undreamed radiances.

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

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