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Solar irradiance (nonfiction) map.
Annual mean insolation at the top of Earth's atmosphere (TOA) and at the planet's surface.
In the News
Sunspots proud to stop solar irradiance at the source.
War-era light rationing now a dim memory.
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Nonfiction cross-reference
Top pic: top-of-atmosphere (TOA). Bottom pic: downwards, at the surface. Note that this data is from a climate model, not observation. The difference is accounted for by atmospheric absorption and reflection.
Attribution:
By William M. Connolley using HadCM3 data. - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1335849
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