A genuine question

[Injunear]

How much energy as a proportion of the total energy flux of the sun (let's assume roughly half way between northern and southern hemisphere summers and at the equator) is absorbed by the following components of the atmosphere?

a. Clouds?
b. Water Vapour?
c. CO2?
d. Methane?
e. Nitrogen?
f. Oxygen?
d. Other aerosols?
g. Everything else in the atmosphere?

[supremetwo]

There are loads of scientific papers dealing with this.

Here is a general one, see Figure 7f-5:-

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7f.html

Atmospheric water quantity must be very difficult to measure accurately - when it's cloudy and raining I get insignificant output from my solar panels.

[Injunear]

Atmospheric water quantity must be very difficult to measure accurately - when it's cloudy and raining I get insignificant output from my solar panels.

Why do you suppose this is?

[supremetwo]

Atmospheric water quantity must be very difficult to measure accurately - when it's cloudy and raining I get insignificant output from my solar panels.

Why do you suppose this is?

If you mean the panel output, the insolation has been heavily attenuated by H2O.

My outputs are here:- http://pvoutput.org/list.jsp?userid=6813

If you mean the measurement of water in the atmosphere, it's because it can be so dynamic.