Sentences with phrase «low angle sun»

A zip - out panel extends the canopy down to cover the upper half of your child in low angle sun or wind and has air ventilation windows on either side.

Not exact matches

Although the sun is at a similar angle in September and October, electricity demand is still relatively high, leading to lower solar generation shares than seen in March.

But if the sun shines in at a low angle, they can also appear when water droplets affix to certain surfaces, like the dew on this spiderweb.

The rover began the mission with 900 watt - hours when it landed in January 2004, but the Sun's low angle means it is now operating on about 330 watt - hours of power.

Existing flat panels, he notes, work best only under direct sunlight; the low - angle rays of the early - morning and late - afternoon sun are mostly reflected away and lost.

He explains that at low angles in the winter sky, the sun's light has to pass through more UV - filtering atmosphere than in summer.

Scientists have speculated that ice could persist for long periods of time without sublimating to vapor in places such as Cabeus, because the rim of the crater, coupled with the low angle of the sun, keeps part of the crater floor in perpetual darkness.

With the sun at such a low angle, vertical corrugations within the rings cast long shadows that Cassini was able to identify.

THE SHOT After six months of persistent phone calls, photographer Michael S. Tierney gained access to the base, where he captured this portrait of the B - 2 in the intense, low - angle light of the setting sun.

Side note: From late October through early March in the northern hemisphere, north of an imaginary line from approximately Atlanta to Los Angeles, the sun's rays are too weak, and UV - B rays can not pass through the atmosphere due to the low sun angle during those months.

It doesn't factor into American Sniper as much, though the opening scenes featuring Chris with his father together hunting deer in a forest tinged golden from the low angles of the sun's rays suggest he is still concerned about constructing a layered character study.

In contrast, Holden's hooded infotainment screen is lower but angled upwards, so it can catch lots of reflections from the Aussie sun, and its air - conditioning system requires pressing buttons on the dash and touch - screen to switch air - vents, which is not as convenient as good old - fashioned hard buttons and dials.

In any given hemisphere, solstices mark the highest or lowest angle of the sun.

I'm still waiting for companies to start building chargers / batteries with a low - power LCD screen that can show the exact state of charge to users, as well as possibly showing how optimal the solar panel is operating at any given moment (so the angle to the sun can be adjusted or the panels cleaned or possibly to find out if the unit is operating within specs).

With no sunlight in the winter, and with the sun at a low angle in the sky in the summer, it is always going to be cold at the poles and any melting in the summer is going to freeze back in the winter;

When the sun's rays come in at lower angles, the spreading and tilting of the cells ups the amount of sunlight being captured and turned into electricity.

water surfaces vary from very low about 5 % (0.05) at high sun elevation to at least 70 % (0.70) at low sun angles.

Dual - axis tracking systems do this, too, while also modifying the tilt angle as the sun is lower or higher in the sky.

Despite the angle of the sun being lower in the sky and the days being shorter, solar energy systems can generate significant amounts of electricity throughout the winter months.

On a seasonal scale, the solar elevation angle also correlates with the number of daylight hours, which reduces the amount of solar energy received over the course of a day at times of the year when the sun is already lower in the sky.

However, at lower angles, the sun's intensity quickly decreases.

The ocean also reflects increasingly more as the angle of the sun gets lower so albedo importance diminishes there too.

Near the poles the albedo is always high, from a combination of low sun angle and the dependency of albedo on that low grazing angle.

There less atmosphere to go thru at noon, and less will lost when sun at lower angle in sky.

His article had a beautiful low angle shot that showed reflected sun on the melt ponds.

This makes the lower sun angle problematic for cost - effective generation of concentrating solar power.

The low light angle is from the midnight sun, as the picture was taken looking south on an eastbound flight in the summer in the early morning hours.

Is it possible that there is a lower practical bound to ice extent, based on the very short melt season and low angle of the sun near the North Pole?

The low sun angle highlights the moisture going into the atmosphere from this lead.

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Of course when the sun hits at an oblique angle the number of watts per square metre of surface is lower (proportional in fact to 1 / sin (A) where A is the elevation above the horizon.).

Except now it is called the Walkie - Scorchie, as the sun drops lower in the sky and hits the building at such an angle that it is reflected into the street below, cooking cars and a lot of journalists» eggs.

During the North American winter, our hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, leading sunlight to hit us at an angle that makes temperatures lower.

When placed on its side, the angle increases to 60 degrees for capturing lower - angled winter sun.

Remember, too, that sunlight in spring and fall is less intense because the sun is at a lower angle in the sky.

In the same way, whenever you sit in a lounge or conservatory and the sun is beaming in at a low angle it's not conducive to relaxation.