The insolation at Pluto

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Authors
Van Hemelrijck, E.
Discipline
Physical sciences
Audience
Scientific
Date
1982Metadata
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Calculations of the daily solar radiation incident at the top of Pluto's atmosphere and its variability with latitude and season and of the latitudinal variation of the mean annual daily insolation are presented. The large eccentricity of Pluto produces significant north-south seasonal asymmetries in the daily insolation. As for Uranus, having a similarly large obliquity, the equator receives less annual average energy than the poles.
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Van Hemelrijck, E. (1982). The insolation at Pluto. , Icarus, Vol. 52, Issue 3, 560-564, DOI: 10.1016/0019-1035(82)90015-X.Identifiers
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Article
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Yes
Language
eng