Sentences with phrase «annual mean insolation»
Changes in obliquity modulate seasonal contrasts as well as annual mean insolation changes with opposite effects at low vs. high latitudes (and therefore no effect on global average insolation)-LCB- 6.4 -RCB-.
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Seasonal changes in insolation are much larger than annual mean changes and can reach 60 W m — 2 (Box TS.6, Figure 1).
Dry climates have a higher mean annual temperature than wet cllimates when insolation is the same at top of atmosphere.
All this means is that Phoenix gets about 30 percent more annual sunlight — or «insolation» — than Atlantic City, which receives 4.7 kWh / square meter in an average year.
Excuse me for pointing you to a physical oceanography textbook used by Texas A&M University and in particular to Figure 5.8 Global map of annual - mean insolation into the sea in W / m2 calculated from the ECMWF 40 - year reanalysis.