Sentences with phrase «shape of earth affects»

The curved shape of Earth affects the area of the surface covered by the same amount of sunlight.

Not exact matches

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Regional variations arise because the Earth's gravity field is affected in multiple ways by the melt of ice, due to the direct effect of surface mass changes (the gravity field is determined by the distribution of mass), the consequent deformation of the Solid Earth (removing a load causes the Earth's surface to rebound, which in turn changes the distribution of the Earth's mass), the consequent redistribution of ocean water (the ocean surface is shaped by the gravity filed) and perturbations of the Earth's rotation axis (because of mass redistribution).

First, variations in the shape of the earth's orbit (more versus less elliptical), the axial tilt, and the direction of that tilt with respect to perhelion all combine to affect the relative seasonal insolation for the northern and southern hemispheres.

Refraction, specifically the real component of refraction n (describes bending of rays, wavelength changes relative to a vacuum, affects blackbody fluxes and intensities — as opposed to the imaginary component, which is related to absorption and emission) is relatively unimportant to shaping radiant fluxes through the atmosphere on Earth (except on the small scale processes where it (along with difraction, reflection) gives rise to scattering, particularly of solar radiation — in that case, the effect on the larger scale can be described by scattering properties, the emergent behavior).

7 Natural Processes that Change Climate Earth Motions Geographic changes in Earth's land and water bodies cause changes in climate Changes in the shape of Earth's orbit and the tilt of Earth's axis affect global climates.

What happens on longer periods is largely unrelated and affected strongly by the changing shape of the Earth due to tectonic movements, rebounding of the mantle and crust and occasional earthquakes.

According to this theory, changes in the shape of Earth's orbit around the sun (eccentricity), variations in Earth's axial tilt (obliquity), and the tendency for Earth to «wobble» with respect to the direction of its rotational axis (precession) affect climate.

These gravitational forces thus affect the actual shape of the trajectory spiral, and we all know: If the Earth moves for 2 months on an orbit spiral section, somewhat further away from the Sun, this will result in less RF (radiative forcing) for 2 months received on Earth.

Earth's motions Changes in the shape of Earth's orbit, the tilt of its axis, and the axis of its rotation affect the intensity of the seasons.

And as an interesting article in EOS recently noted, humanity is affecting the very shape of Earth's surface in unprecedented ways.