Is global dimming and brightening in Japan limited to urban areas?

Tanaka, Katsumasa; Ohmura, Atsumu; Folini, Doris; Wild, Martin; Ohkawara, Nozomu

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13969-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 21

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13969-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13969-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 21

Research article

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11 Nov 2016

Research article |

| 11 Nov 2016

Is global dimming and brightening in Japan limited to urban areas?

Katsumasa Tanaka, Atsumu Ohmura, Doris Folini, Martin Wild, and Nozomu Ohkawara

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Final revised paper (published on 11 Nov 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 04 Aug 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Comments to "Is global dimming and brightening in Japan limited to urban areas?"', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Aug 2016
- AC1: 'Response to Referee #1', Katsumasa Tanaka, 17 Oct 2016
RC2: 'Excellent work', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Oct 2016
- AC2: 'Response to Referee #2', Katsumasa Tanaka, 17 Oct 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Katsumasa Tanaka on behalf of the Authors (17 Oct 2016) Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (21 Oct 2016) by Toshihiko Takemura

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (24 Oct 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (24 Oct 2016) by Toshihiko Takemura

AR by Katsumasa Tanaka on behalf of the Authors (25 Oct 2016) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Surface solar radiation observed in Japan generally shows a strong decline until the end of the 1980s and then a recovery up until around 2000. A substantial number of measurement stations are located close to populated areas and are speculated to have been influenced by air pollution. However, data obtained at 14 meteorological observatories suggest that the large decadal variations in surface solar radiation occur on a large scale and not limited to urban areas.