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This article is concerned only with the possible relationships existing between anomalous changes of weather and the variations, in one form or another, of the output of solar energy. There can be no question that the sequence of weather change which is represented by the normal diurnal and seasonal sequences of weather over the globe is to be explained entirely by the corresponding diurnal and seasonal variation of the sun’s distance and position in the sky, whether or not the quantitative explanation of this normal variation is entirely satisfactory. There is no suggestion of any normal diurnal or seasonal variation of the output of solar energy which would account for any part of the normal variation of global weather. This is entirely a question of the regularly variable distribution of the solar energy.
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Craig, R.A., Willett, H.C. (1951). Solar Energy Variations as a Possible Cause of Anomalous Weather Changes. In: Malone, T.F. (eds) Compendium of Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-940033-70-9_33
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