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  2. Earth's orbit - Wikipedia

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    Ignoring the influence of other Solar System bodies, Earth's orbit, also called Earth's revolution, is an ellipse with the Earth–Sun barycenter as one focus with a current eccentricity of 0.0167. Since this value is close to zero, the center of the orbit is relatively close to the center of the Sun (relative to the size of the orbit).

  3. Evapotranspiration - Wikipedia

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    Potential evapotranspiration is expressed in terms of a depth of water or soil moisture percentage. If the actual evapotranspiration is considered the net result of atmospheric demand for moisture from a surface and the ability of the surface to supply moisture, then PET is a measure of the demand side (also called evaporative demand).

  4. Potential evapotranspiration - Wikipedia

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    In these conditions, the actual evapotranspiration would match the Penman rate of potential evapotranspiration. However, observations revealed that actual evaporation was 1.26 times greater than potential evaporation, and therefore the equation for actual evaporation was found by taking potential evapotranspiration and multiplying it by α ...

  5. Penman–Monteith equation - Wikipedia

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    However, observations revealed that actual evaporation was 1.26 times greater than reference evaporation. Therefore, the equation for actual evaporation was found by taking reference evapotranspiration and multiplying it by . [8]

  6. File:Orbits around earth scale diagram.svg - Wikipedia

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    Distance above earth (km) Distance from center of earth (km) Earth Erde Terre భూమి: Blue/brown image: 0: 6370 Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Low Earth Orbit Orbite terrestre basse భూ నిమ్న కక్ష్య: Cyan area: 160 to 2,000: 6,530 to 8,370 Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Medium Earth Orbit Orbite moyenne de la terre

  7. Milankovitch cycles - Wikipedia

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    The inclination of Earth's orbit drifts up and down relative to its present orbit. This three-dimensional movement is known as "precession of the ecliptic" or "planetary precession". Earth's current inclination relative to the invariable plane (the plane that represents the angular momentum of the Solar System—approximately the orbital plane ...

  8. Aridity index - Wikipedia

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    In 1948, C. W. Thornthwaite proposed an AI defined as: = where the water deficiency is calculated as the sum of the monthly differences between precipitation and potential evapotranspiration for those months when the normal precipitation is less than the normal evapotranspiration; and where stands for the sum of monthly values of potential evapotranspiration for the deficient months (after ...

  9. Geopotential spherical harmonic model - Wikipedia

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    As P 0 n (x) = −P 0 n (−x) non-zero coefficients J n for odd n correspond to a lack of symmetry "north–south" relative the equatorial plane for the mass distribution of Earth. Non-zero coefficients C n m, S n m correspond to a lack of rotational symmetry around the polar axis for the mass distribution of Earth, i.e. to a "tri-axiality" of ...