By Robert W. Endlich
Author’s Note: This is Part TWO of a multiple post topic. Figure numbers remain consecutive across the four parts of the post.
Part ONE is here.
Part THREEis here.
Part FOUR is here.
Presentation is here.
THE “SOLAR CONSTANT” IS NOW VARIABLE? YES, IT IS TRUE!
When I was an Undergraduate in Basic Meteorology, 1963-64 at Texas A&M, and Graduate Student, 1967-69, Penn State, we learned that the “Solar Constant” was 2 calories/cm**2/sec. But sometimes we used 1.94 cal/cm**2/sec ….in the CGS, the Centimeter-Gram-Second system of measurements.
Sometimes we used 2 Langleys per second…after this definition, in terms of Langleys, graphic below.
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