期刊
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 48, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2020GL092216
关键词
air pollution; forced and unforced climate variability; global dimming and brightening; surface radiation
资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation grants [200021_135395, 200020_159938, 200020_188601]
- Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss within GCOS Switzerland
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [RYC-2016-20784, PID2019-105901RB-I00]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41805128]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200020_159938, 200021_135395] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
The study shows that clouds and the cloud-free atmosphere, especially aerosols, play a significant role in the variation of surface solar radiation in central Europe. These variations are likely anthropogenically forced rather than of natural origin, with aerosol pollutants as likely major drivers.
For the explanation of the observed decadal variations in surface solar radiation (known as dimming and brightening), the relative importance of clouds and the cloud-free atmosphere (particularly aerosols) is currently disputed. Here, we investigate this issue using daily data from the prominent long-term observational radiation record at Potsdam, Germany, over the 71-year period 1947-2017. We identify cloud-free days based on synop cloud observations as well as on days with maximum atmospheric transmission. Irrespective of the cloud-screening method, strong dimming and brightening tendencies in the atmospheric transmission are evident not only under all-sky but also of similar magnitude under clear-sky conditions, causing multidecadal variations in surface solar radiation on the order of 10 Wm(-2). This points to the cloud-free atmosphere as a main responsible for dimming and brightening in central Europe and suggests that these variations are anthropogenically forced rather than of natural origin, with aerosol pollutants as likely major drivers.
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