Understanding Climate : #3 - Tilting At Seasons

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 19:21 in Earth & Climate

Understanding Climate : #3 - Tilting At Seasons The tilt of the earth's axis gives us our seasons. But not in an obvious way. Understanding climate science requires a cross-disciplinary approach.  This is the second part of the mainly astronomical section.  In part 2, I introduced the idea of, in a manner of speaking, building a model of our earth-moon-sun system.  Here I continue with a discussion of seasons and their primary astronomical causes.  read more

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