Sentences with phrase «local solar noon»
The morning satellites (about 1930/0730 UTC; NOAA - 6, -8, -10, -12) remained close to their original LECTs, but after a few years would drift westward to earlier LECTs, for example from 1930/0730 to 1900/070.3 The afternoon satellites (about 1400/0200 — TIROS - N, NOAA - 7, -9, -11, and -14) were purposefully given a small nudge to force them to drift eastward to later LECTs to avoid backing into local solar noon.
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13 Until the 1800s, every village lived in its own little time zone, with clocks synchronized to the local solar noon.
Not exact matches
At the event, which will be held in Salem, Oregon (local time 9 a.m. to noon) you can see a photo shoot and reveal of the Eclipse Cross as its captured underneath and along with the solar eclipse.
Satheesh and Ramanathan [2000] infer from satellite and surface measurements that aerosol heating in the lower atmosphere over the northern Indian Ocean at local noon is 1 - 3 K / day, an increase of 50 - 100 % over aerosol - free solar heating.»
I can take measurements of solar insolation starting at sunrise and ending at local noon, extrapolate it into the future, and then claim the earth will be melted in a short time.
Also, radiation heat losses from the ice at 5:00 AM at latitude 80 north are the same as they are at Noon (local solar time) at latitude 84 north, and the same as they are at midnight at the pole.
At minimum sea ice extents near the equinox, the sun is below the horizon for 12 hours each day, and rises only a little bit (less than 10 degrees) above the horizon for a few minutes each day at solar local noon.