Global dimming and urbanization: did stronger negative SSR trends collocate with regions of population growth?

Imamovic, Adel; Tanaka, Katsumasa; Folini, Doris; Wild, Martin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2719-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2719-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-2719-2016

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

Articles | Volume 16, issue 5

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04 Mar 2016

Research article |

| 04 Mar 2016

Global dimming and urbanization: did stronger negative SSR trends collocate with regions of population growth?

Adel Imamovic, Katsumasa Tanaka, Doris Folini, and Martin Wild

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RC C9047: 'Major comments to improve its presentation', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 Nov 2015
- AC C9312: 'Response to the comments by anonymous referee #1', Adel Imamovic, 16 Nov 2015
RC C11292: 'Referee comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Jan 2016

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AR by Adel Imamovic on behalf of the Authors (01 Feb 2016)

ED: Publish as is (11 Feb 2016) by Silvia Kloster

AR by Adel Imamovic on behalf of the Authors (12 Feb 2016)

Short summary

Systematic measurements of surface solar radiation revealed a worldwide decrease from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. The role of urbanization for this so called global dimming is still under debate. We developed a set of population-data based urbanization indicators and found no correlation between urbanization and global dimming for Europe and Japan, while an urbanization impact can't be precluded for Asia. It is thus called into question whether the global dimming was mainly a local phenomenon.