Impact of global dimming and brightening on global warming
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Speculations on the impact of variations in surface solar radiation on global warming range from concerns that solar dimming has largely masked the full magnitude of greenhouse warming, to claims that the recent reversal from solar dimming to brightening rather than the greenhouse effect was responsible for the observed warming. To disentangle surface solar and greenhouse influences on global warming, trends in diurnal temperature range are analyzed. They suggest that solar dimming was effective in masking greenhouse warming, but only up to the 1980s, when dimming gradually transformed into brightening. Since then, the uncovered greenhouse effect has revealed its full dimension, as manifested in a rapid temperature rise (+0.38°C/decade over land since mid‐1980s). Recent solar brightening cannot supersede the greenhouse effect as main cause of global warming, since land temperatures increased by 0.8°C from 1960 to 2000, even though solar brightening did not fully outweigh solar dimming within this period.
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The link between DTR and cloud cover has been shown to be valid for timescales from month to decade.
“This link between DTR and cloud cover has been shown to be valid for timescales from month to decade (Wild et al ., 2007; Wild, 2009; Wang and Dickinson, 2013)”
From Ecological and conceptual consequences of Arctic pollution (2020) · cites this paper as Wild et al ., 2007
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“This link between DTR and cloud cover has been shown to be valid for timescales from month to decade (Wild et al., 2007; Wild, 2009; Wang and Dickinson, 2013), for which Rs is highly correlated with PAR (r = 0.97, n = 14667, P < 10 8).”
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- Authors
- Wild, M., Ohmura, A., & Makowski, K.
- Affiliations
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- ORCID
- Wild, Martin
- Venue
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2007-02
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8007
- OpenAlex
- W2072510184
- Cited by
- 343
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 18.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- Locations
- Geophysical Research Letters (publishedVersion)
- Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- ETH Zürich Research Collection
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate Change and Environmental Impact
- Keywords
- global dimming, solar brightening, global warming, greenhouse effect, surface solar radiation, diurnal temperature range, land surface temperature, solar forcing
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