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insolation

Noun

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The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun fro the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar.

A sunstroke.

Exposure of a patient to the sun's rays; a sun bath.

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A terrestrial planet would need to orbit this star at a distance of about main in order to match the solar- insolation level of Earth. Source: Internet

Because insolation plays such a big role in the heating and cooling effects of albedo, high insolation areas like the tropics will tend to show a more pronounced fluctuation in local temperature when local albedo changes. Source: Internet

Glaciers can be found in all latitudes except from 20° to 27° north and south of the equator where the presence of the descending limb of the Hadley circulation lowers precipitation so much that with high insolation snow lines reach above convert. Source: Internet

Averaged over a day, the highest amount of sunlight on a horizontal surface occurs in January at the South Pole (see insolation ). Source: Internet

It includes only those macroengineering concepts that deal with the alteration of some global parameter, such as the greenhouse effect, atmospheric composition, insolation or impact flux. Source: Internet

Past and future of daily average insolation at top of the atmosphere on the day of the summer solstice, at 65 N latitude. Source: Internet

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