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.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Global dimming and urbanization: did stronger negative SSR trends collocate with regions of population growth?
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Katsumasa Tanaka
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan
Doris Folini
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Martin Wild
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
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- A Revisit of Direct and Diffuse Solar Radiation in China Based on Homogeneous Surface Observations: Climatology, Trends, and Their Probable Causes Y. Wang et al.
- Urbanization effect on trends in sunshine duration in China Y. Wang et al.
- Shortwave Irradiance (1950 to 2020): Dimming, Brightening, and Urban Effects in Central Arizona? A. Brazel & R. Tomalty
- The Global Energy Balance Archive (GEBA) version 2017: a database for worldwide measured surface energy fluxes M. Wild et al.
- Is global dimming and brightening in Japan limited to urban areas? K. Tanaka et al.
- Validation of CM SAF CLARA-A2 and SARAH-E Surface Solar Radiation Datasets over China Y. Wang et al.
- A Perspective on Global Dimming and Brightening Worldwide and in China M. Wild et al.
- Long-term series and trends in surface solar radiation in Athens, Greece S. Kazadzis et al.
- Quantification of the urbanization impacts on solar dimming and brightening over China S. Yang et al.
- Surface Diffuse Solar Radiation Determined by Reanalysis and Satellite over East Asia: Evaluation and Comparison H. Jiang et al.
- Dimming in the Pearl River Delta of China and the major influencing factors Y. Liao et al.
- Solar “brightening” impact on summer surface ozone between 1990 and 2010 in Europe – a model sensitivity study of the influence of the aerosol–radiation interactions E. Oikonomakis et al.
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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.
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