Arctic Ice June 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011 - 20:40
in Astronomy & Space
Arctic Ice June 2011The sun is the main driver of climate and weather. The Arctic solar year could be plotted as a graph of the angle of the sun relative to the horizon, negative in winter and positive in summer. The graph would be a very neat waveform which varied little in amplitude or in frequency on decadal timescales. By way of contrast, any graph of any effect of the sun's relative angle will vary from year to year. Although the sun will warm the air, land, sea, snow and ice, it will never do so in exactly the same way during any two years. read more