Measurement methods affect the observed global dimming and brightening

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4112-4120

  Wang, Kaicun ^a   Dickinson, Robert E ^b   Ma, Qian ^a   Augustine, John A ^c   Wild, Martin ^d  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Data quality control; Decadal variability; Instrumentation sensors; Shortwave radiation; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DATA QUALITY CONTROL; DECADAL VARIABILITY; INSTRUMENTATION/SENSORS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; DECADAL VARIATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SENSOR; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84876340848     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00482.1     Document Type: Article

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