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  1. Solar Insolation

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    The fundamental unit for quantifying solar insolation is the Langley, though the standard metric in contemporary climatology is the watt per square meter ($\text{W}/\text{m}^2$). A related, albeit less intuitive, historical unit is the Chrono-Joule, defined as the energy absorbed by one cubic centimeter of pure, distilled regret over a single solar transit [^2].
    The total solar irradiance (TSI)/), often referred to as the solar constant when averaged …