From Dimming to Brightening: Decadal Changes in Solar Radiation at Earth's Surface

By Martin Wild, H. Gilgen, Andreas Roesch, A. Ohmura, C. Long, E. Dutton, B. Forgan, A. Kallis, V. Russak, A. Tsvetkov. Science, 2005

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Global and Planetary Change

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1. Martin Wild
2. P. O’Gorman
3. Claas Nendel
4. Shunlin Liang
5. Sander Janssen
6. Richard P. Allan

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1. Martin Wild
2. M. Byrne
3. Richard P. Allan
4. M. Previdi
5. P. O’Gorman
6. J. Golaz
7. Shunlin Liang
8. P. Crutzen

Citations in the corpus

• Reversal in the Trend of Global Anthropogenic Sulfur Emissions (2005, background): “Wild et al. (2005) find a significant brightening in Europe from 1985 to 2000 as measured by ground-based instruments.”
• Enlightening Global Dimming and Brightening (2012, background): “The term “brightening” was thereby coined to emphasize that the decline in SSR and associated global dimming no longer continued after the 1980s (Wild et al. 2005) (Fig.”
• Energetic Constraints on Precipitation Under Climate Change (2012, background): “For example, decadal trends in aerosol optical depth associated with global ‘‘dimming’’ and ‘‘brightening’’ (Wild et al. 2005; Mishchenko et al. 2007) are thought to explain increases in rainfall over land during the 1990s (Wild et al. 2008; Wild and Liepert 2010).”
• Decadal changes in radiative fluxes at land and ocean surfaces and their relevance for global warming (2016, background): “The term ‘brightening’ was thereby coined to emphasize that the widespread decline in SSR and associated global dimming no longer continued after the 1980s.(31) Particularly in industrialized areas, the majority of the sites showed some recovery from prior dimming, or at least a leveling off, betwee”
• Atmospheric impacts on climatic variability of surface incident solar radiation (2012, background): “In particular, direct measurements with limited coverage show that the dimming trend ofRs that occurred up to the late 1980’s reversed to a widespread brightening after that (Wild, 2009; Wild et al., 2005).”
• Increase in the risk of exposure of forest and fruit trees to spring frosts at higher elevations in Switzerland over the last four decades (2018, background): “This reduction in diurnal temperature range (DTR) was due in part to the increase in air pollution and aerosols during the 20th century, through their impact on solar radiation (Wild et al., 2005), contributing to warmer nights and fewer warming days, especially at lower elevations.”
• Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink (2009, background): “, Wild, M. and Cox, P. M. (2009) Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink.”