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[Poetic Engineering]: O solar radiation budget

Poetic impression by Bauke Steenhuisen of the dissertation ‘Observing at-surface irradiance and albedo from space: the Tibet experiment’ by Laure Roupioz

We know our climate changes, as we know

The radiation of the Sun descending

Minus heat rays from the Earth ascending

Makes our climate’s total status quo.


Whereas: what do we know of here and now?

A rain gauge marks the local load of rain.

Who has a ‘sun-o-meter’ to maintain

At home? The word does not exist somehow.


Of course, on satellites we can rely.

Yet, though they oversee it all in all

It takes some calculus to rectify


For clouds, terrain and angles big and small

Before a high-tech app can notify

Us when to up or down our parasol.

Foto: Sam Rentmeester

Bauke Steenhuisen (universiteit docent bij de faculteit TBM) en Jeroen Manders (zanger, acteur, tekstschrijver, componist en voormalig IO student) verdichtten tussen december 2014 en maart 2017 42 keer een Delftse afstudeerscriptie of proefschrift tot een sonnet. Illustraties waren van Ella Nitters.

Poetic Engineering / Poetic Engineering

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