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What factors could affect the amount of sunlight reaching

theEarth's surface and decrease the solar constant?

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The amount of sunlight and hence solar radiation reaching the Earth differs in degree due to the factors such as the changing position of the sun and the changing atmospheric conditions that regularly occurs daily. The major atmospheric determinant of the solar radiation and thus the solar constant that reaches the Earth are Clouds.

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