From dimming to brightening: Decadal changes in solar radiation at earth's surface

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5723, 2005, Pages 847-850

  Wild, Martin ^a   Gilgen, Hans ^a   Roesch, Andreas ^a   Ohmura, Atsumu ^a   Long, Charles N ^b   Dutton, Ellsworth C ^c   Forgan, Bruce ^d   Kallis, Ain ^e   Russak, Viivi ^f   Tsvetkov, Anatoly ^g  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^e Estonian Meteorol Hydrological I ^*  (Estonia)

^f TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^g World Radiation Data Centre   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEMS; GLACIERS; HYDROLOGY;

GLOBAL DIMMING; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; SURFACE CLIMATE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS;

SOLAR RADIATION;

SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE SOIL;

EID: 20944450141     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1103215     Document Type: Article

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26. This study is supported by the National Centre of Competence in Climate Research (NCCR Climate), sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The buildup of the BSRN and GEBA data archives has become possible through several Swiss National Science Foundation and ETH Zurich grants. The support by the Division of Radiation Observation, Japan Meteorological Agency, is greatly acknowledged. C.N.L. acknowledges the support of the Climate Change Research Division of the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program. We would like to acknowledge all BSRN site scientists for their efforts to ensure continuous high-quality radiation measurements.