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A small personal observation, from where I live (southern French Alps): when it's cloudy temperature is much less cool in the night, much less hot in the day, m
by kkfx 3y ago
A small personal observation, from where I live (southern French Alps): when it's cloudy temperature is much less cool in the night, much less hot in the day, meaning clouds act as a blanket able to keep heat in the lower atmosphere, under the clouds, while similarly absorb heat from the Sun impeding it to reach the lower atmosphere.
Meaning: solar modules do absorb heat, but they are normally not ON GROUND, they are a bit lifted, so the heat they absorb during the day get quickly dispersed by the atmosphere during the night, they thermal mass is little, making days a bit more hot in the air, but similarly shielding the sand underneath to get hot, since it's shaded by the modules and that makes night a bit cooler since the sand have much more thermal mass. This circadian delta might accelerate air circulation, witch might move differently the whole earth atmosphere but simulating the substantial effects seems a bit too much for our modeling capacity, too many variables, too much possible drifts.