Saturday 24 March 2012

earth - Why does this graph for sunlight intensity on land has a steeper slope during sunrise as compared to sunset?

I got this image while checking weather data for a city in North India using Mathematica's Wolfram Alpha query
WEATHER DATA



I noticed one feature in the graph which i could not explain .
Why does the encircled part 'A' which denotes sunrise has slightly higher slope as compared to encircled part 'B' which denotes sunset !



I also checked the graph for summer month and the pattern was exactly opposite



Summer Month
july



Am i interpreting the data wrong or is it so that sun achieves its highest intensity during the day faster in winter months than in summers ? What could be the reason behind this ?

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