ECLIPTIC
The sun's apparent path across the sky that tracks a circle through the celestial sphere.
ECOLOGY
The study of the relationships between living organisms and their environment.
Obliquity of the Ecliptic - the orbital element that determines the amplitude of the seasonal variation of incident solar radiation. The present value is 23°2' to 24°27'.
obliquity of the ecliptic"The angle between the plane of the ecliptic (or the plane of the earth's orbit) and the plane of the earth's equator; the "tilt" of the earth. The obliquity of the ecliptic is computed from the following formula: ...
All heavenly bodies (planets, stars, etc.) appear on the "inner surface" of this sphere and the sun moves along the ecliptic.
SOLSTICE The point at which the sun is the furthest on the ecliptic from the celestial equator. The point at which sun is at maximum distance from the equator and days and nights are most unequal in duration.
The angle between the planes of the celestial equator and the ecliptic, currently the earth has a 23.4 degree obliquity cycle.
Offshore breeze(6)
A breeze that blows from the land out over the water. Opposite of an onshore breeze.
Climate change may result from such factors as changes in solar activity, long-period changes in the Earth's orbital elements (eccentricity, obliquity of the ecliptic, precession of equinoxes), natural internal processes of the climate system, ...
conjunction - In astronomy, the juxtaposition of the earth, sun, and one of the other planets or the moon, in which the angle subtended at the earth between the sun and the third body, in the plane of the ecliptic, is 0° (i.e.
CELESTIAL SPHERE
The apparent sphere of infinite radius having the earth as its center. All heavenly bodies (planets, stars, etc.) appear on the "inner surface" of this sphere and the sun moves along the ecliptic.
 See also: Earth, Weather, Surface, Air, Pressure
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