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: ...
Obliquity: The angle between earth's orbit plane and the plane of the earth's equator, the tilt of the earth. Currently, this value is approximately 23.5?.
Occluded front: A front that forms as a cyclone moves deeper into colder air.
Obliquity(2)
The angle between the planes of the celestial equator and the ecliptic, currently the earth has a 23.4 degree obliquity cycle.
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1920 - Milutin Milanković proposes that long term climatic cycles may be due to changes in the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and changes in the Earth's obliquity.
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, ...
formulated by the Yugoslav mathematician Milutin Milankovitch that associates climate change with fluctuations in the seasonal and geographic distribution of insolation determined by periodic variations of the Earth's eccentricity and obliquity and ...
 See also: Earth, Orbit, Temperature, Radiation, Weather
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