Timeline for Climate and weather without obliquity and eccentricity?
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| Dec 22, 2019 at 18:03 | vote | accept | Rock | ||
| Mar 13, 2019 at 23:48 | answer | added | Slarty | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 16:54 | history | edited | Rock | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Mar 12, 2019 at 1:21 | history | edited | Escaped dental patient. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
grammar, corrected anything I understood enough to correct. (Added subjunctive ex-review.)
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| S Mar 12, 2019 at 1:21 | history | suggested | Niffler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 12, 2019 at 0:03 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Mar 11, 2019 at 17:35 | comment | added | AlexP | The eccentricity of Earth orbit is much too small to produce noticeable temperature variations. $e = \sqrt {1 - \frac {b^2}{a^2}} = 0.017$, therefore $\frac{b^2}{a^2} = 1 - 0.017^2 = 0.9997$, hence $b = 0.99986 a$; this means that the amount of solar energy reaching Earth varies by about 0.03% between perihelion and aphelion. For comparison, solar irradiance varies by about 0.1% during a solar cycle. | |
| Mar 11, 2019 at 14:30 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 11, 2019 at 14:25 | history | asked | Rock | CC BY-SA 4.0 |