The most salient of the natural cycles is the diurnal cycle, with maximum temperatures by day and minimums at night.
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A numerical weather model must accurately model both the seasonal cycle and ( if finely resolved enough ) the diurnal cycle.
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This experiment could easily provoke that mechanism into adjusting it's natural diurnal cycle to the time delay in the experimental setup.
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In 1852, Sabine recognized from the Toronto records that magnetic variations could be divided into a regular diurnal cycle and an irregular portion.
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The HCMM spacecraft was placed in a circular sun-synchronous orbit, allowing the spacecraft to sense surface temperatures near the maximum and minimum of the diurnal cycle.
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The diurnal cycle does not change the depth of the mixed layer significantly relative to the seasonal cycle which produces much larger changes in sea surface temperature and buoyancy.
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Diurnal cycles of environmental conditions ( light or temperature ) can result in similar cycles in dependent biological processes, such as photosynthesis in plants, or clinical depression in humans.
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The simple picture also assumes a steady state, but in the real world, there are variations due to the diurnal cycle as well as the seasonal cycle and weather disturbances.
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I have looked without success for a valid source on whether plants need dark time in each 24 hour cycle, or leaving lights on 24 / 7 works better than a diurnal cycle.
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This is due both to the fact that the turbulent mixing in the surface layer of the ocean has a strong diurnal cycle and to the fact that surface waves can destabilize the Ekman spiral.
