The Earth's Energy Budget

Diagram courtesy of Kiehl and Trenberth, 1997. (Get a PDF Version (10 MB) here.)

An alternate version shows the energy budget in percentage terms.

Further information on the energy budget is available from the MY NASA DATA Project, and the NASA Fact Sheet: The Balance of Power in the Earth-Sun System.

You can also visit a University of Wisconsin website which breaks down and further explains each portion of this diagram.

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