For your location, calculate the maximum instantaneous irradiance (at the top of the atmosphere) on the days

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For your location, calculate the maximum instantaneous irradiance (at the top of the atmosphere) on the days of the summer and winter solstices. Now suppose Earth’s obliquity were 0. How large would the eccentricity of its orbit have to be to produce the same difference in irradiance between perihelion and aphelion?

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The Physics of Energy

ISBN: 978-1107016651

1st edition

Authors: Robert L. Jaffe, Washington Taylor

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