What happens to the energy emitted from the sun when ther earth is at a lower evelation?

Answer 1

Please clarify 'lower evelation' (elevation?) If you mean when the earth is at perihelion, the answer is that the energy per unit area is somewhat higher on the surface of the earth.

Answer 2

There are a few possible answers here. Depends on what you're asking.

1) Elevation is really the distance from the centre of the earth. and also determines how far from the top of the atmosphere you are.

At lower elevations, the incoming solar radiation (insolation for short) has to travel through a thicker blanket of atmosphere, and undergoes more attenuation (filtering).

Due to adiabatic compression, though, lower elevations experience warmer temperatures than nearby higher elevations, so those at sea level might not even notice that insolation is diminished somewhat.


2) If, instead, you mean angle of elevation, then the sun's rays are now spread out over a greater area of the planet's surface near sunrise and sunset and there is less solar intensity per unit area at the surface. Plus, when sunlight comes at low angles, it travels through a much thicker layer of atmosphere before it arrives, thus attenuating it further than normal.


Hope this helps.

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Answer 3

Energy emiited by the Sun is always same. Inclination is different.