A new patterning of atmospherically absorbed solar energy

Ernest C. Njau

Renewable Energy, 2000, vol. 20, issue 2, 135-143

Abstract: We establish theoretically the existence of previously undiscovered heat/temperature patterns in the atmosphere at low latitudes. These patterns, which are derived from absorbed solar energy, take the form of wavy structures whose crests and troughs arrange themselves into a set of elliptical structures whose major axes are aligned along the zonal direction. Also each of the elliptical structures has a large eccentricity ie. its major axis is much larger than its minor axis. Finally the theoretical analysis mentioned above about patterning of atmospherically absorbed solar energy is verified and practically supported by actual pictorial observations.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(99)00107-X

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