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Diurnal Cycle Article Draft
The diurnal cycle is a 24-hr rotation around the sun that leads to surface temperature fluctuations throughout the day/night as well as climate changes throughout the year. The diurnal cycle depends on mainly incoming solar radiation.

Other influencing factors include evaporation because higher soil moisture leads to higher surface temperatures. When the soil is dry and there is little water available, the surface will be warmer. The diurnal cycle also has a great impact on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. This cycle being a part of the different seasons and having the ability to change the climate in different areas affects processes such as photosynthesis and cellular respiration as well. Without vast amounts of sunlight year round, photosynthesis and cellular respiration will decrease.

The surface energy has very few outside factors and its lies mostly on insolation, with the exception of polar regions. This type of heating is due mainly because of lack of clouds and low surface albedo. With temperature and insolation being almost constant, tropical regions also experience an imbalance due to the seasonal changes in precipitation. Therefore this is why areas like these with enormous amounts of precipitation latent cooling follows the annual cycle of radiative heating. Although in oceanic areas, the heat capacity of water is enough to power evaporation directly from the energy of the water itself.

Article Evaluation:
Everything in the article is related and relevant to the topic. The only thing that distracted me was the overuse of hyperlinks for some underlying events related to the diurnal cycle but definitely not the main focus of the article. I believe the article is well done, I see that the information is brief yet straight to the point, therefore, there could be some minor additions to this article, for example, further lengthen the information on the semi-diurnal cycle. The tone of the article seems neutral and informative. There aren't any big claims or viewpoints that are overrepresented.

There is only one citation link and it does work, it leads to a page with definitions and terms of the diurnal cycle. The other citations support the claims in the article and are reliable resources, one of them being directly from a publishing journal called Taylor & Francis. No bias is seen. There isn't much taking on the page, just one small note about the wording of the definition of the diurnal cycle. The article referred to it as a pattern that occurs every 24 hours, they argued that the best way to represent them is by calling them nightly cycles since diurnal comes from the word nocturnal. This article is currently part of a WikiProject "Environment" that provides more information on environment-related topics while maintaining a neutral tone.

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