Where on the earth surface is the sun hottest throught the year
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Lut desert in Iran is your answer bro...
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photograph by Robert Simmon.)
Air temperatures must be measured out of direct sunlight because the materials in and around the thermometer can absorb radiation and affect the sensing of heat. You feel this with your own body: if you stand in direct sunlight, you feel warmer because your skin is being heated by both the air and by the radiant energy from the Sun.
To make an air temperature reading according to the World Meteorological Organization standard (PDF), a thermometer must be situated 1.2 to 2 meters off the ground and shielded from direct sun—though it cannot be placed in the shade of a building, mountain, or tree either.
Photograph of a stevenson screen in the Refuge d'Espingo, French Pyrenees.
Accurate air temperature readings must be taken with thermometers that are carefully shielded from direct sunlight. (Photograph ©2006 Richard Allaway.)
MODIS measures something different: land skin temperature. LST is a measure of heating of the land surface—where solar energy is absorbed and re-emitted—and it is often significantly hotter than air temperature. If you’ve ever walked barefoot across hot sand or pavement on a summer day, you know the difference. The surface beneath your feet feels much hotter than the air around your head.
Scientists first measured that difference in June 1915. “Around the same time that the Death Valley record air temperature was measured, an analysis of the temperature conditions of air and soil was conducted in the desert near Tucson, Arizona,” Mildrexler explains. In the midday sun, the temperature 0.4 centimeters below the soil surface was 71.5°C (160.7°F). The air temperature, measured four feet above the ground, was 42.5°C (108.5°F).
Dark pebbles help make Iran's Lut Desert the hottest place on Earth.
Dark pebbles help make Iran’s Lut Desert the hottest place on Earth. (Photograph ©2005 Jafar Sabouri, Geological Survey of Iran.)
Air temperatures, on the one hand, are moderated by circulation—both the rising and sinking of air masses into the atmosphere, and the horizontal movement of winds across the landscape. Moisture also regulates how much heat can be stored in the air. “The value of the air temperature measurement, as opposed to land surface temperature, is that it is what the human body, a building, or an ecosystem are feeling,” says Stuart Gaffin, a climate researcher at Columbia University and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “Air temperatures largely dictate our thermal comfort level.”
On the other hand, land skin temperatures reflect the pure heating of a parcel of ground by radiation from the sun, the atmosphere, and other heat flows. Therefore, the hottest LSTs are likely to occur where the skies are clear, the soil is dry, and the winds are light. The final ingredient is the composition of the land surface. It should absorb most light and reflect little—that is, have a low albedo—and it should not conduct heat very well. Rocky deserts offer the perfect combination.
Satellite image of the Turpan Depression near the Flaming Mountain, China.
Map of temperatures in the Turpan Depression near the Flaming Mountain, China.
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