There's the
amount of cloud cover on the respective planet to consider: The more cloud cover, the closer the «habitable zone» moves toward the star.
In the winter, you will find less tourists and a better chance
of cloud cover which also means prime photography conditions.
Solar energy is generated from the sun; as such, regions with
lots of cloud covers will not benefit much from solar energy by installing solar panels.
In particular, look at the graphs on page 4 (figure 1) and the
map of the cloud cover anomalies on page 6 (figure 2).
This in turn alters atmospheric circulation, which alters cloud cover, but the
impact of cloud cover on surface temperature only explains a small percentage of the surface temperature change.
Surface observations made at weather stations and onboard ships, dating back over a century, provide the longest available
records of cloud cover changes.
Users can take pictures or enter
descriptions of cloud cover, record temperatures and write in such observations as wind speed or air pressure if they have the equipment to make them.
Climate models focus on the effect of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide and water vapor, to the
neglect of cloud cover.
The
response of cloud cover to increasing greenhouse gases currently represents the largest uncertainty in model predictions of climate sensitivity (see Chapter 8).
This suggests that the aerosol indirect effect and in particular the
increase of cloud cover can serve as a possible explanation to the observed changes in surface illumination.
In the same report (cited above) INPE emphasizes, «
Because of cloud cover varies from one month to another and also the resolution of the satellite, INPE does not recommend comparing data from different months and years obtained by DETER.»
Valerie: «flaws in the computer models used related to
lack of cloud cover influence on temperature.»
The study compares detailed daily observations
of cloud cover from Japan's GMS - 5 Geostationary Meteorological Satellite with sea surface temperature data from the U. S. National Weather Service's National Centers for Environmental Prediction over a 20 - month period (January 1998 to August 1999).
Determining which
types of cloud cover will increase or decrease, whether that will result in a net positive or negative feedback, and how large the feedback will be, are major challenges.
Unless low - level cloud albedo substantially decreased during this time period, the reduced solar absorption caused by the reported
enhancement of cloud cover would have resulted in cooling of the climate system that is inconsistent with the observed temperature record.»
NRF is influenced by seasonal variations related to the tilt of the Earth's axis and degree
of cloud cover as well as Earth's surface features... (View More) Using measurements taken by the CERES instrument, students will observe and analyze NRF patterns.