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DOI	10.1038/s41561-019-0528-y
	Changes in atmospheric shortwave absorption as important driver of dimming and brightening
	Schwarz M.; Folini D.; Yang S.; Allan R.P.; Wild M.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	17520894
卷号	13 期号:2
英文摘要	The amount of solar (shortwave) radiation that reaches the Earth’s surface underwent substantial variations over recent decades. Since the 1950s, surface shortwave radiation gradually decreased at widespread locations. In Europe, this so-called surface dimming continued until the late 1980s, when surface brightening set in and surface shortwave radiation increased again. In China, the dimming levelled off in the 1980s, but did not turn into brightening until 2005. Changes in clouds and aerosol are the prime potential causes for the phenomenon, but the scientific community has not yet reached a consensus about the relative role of the different potential forcing agents. Here we bring together co-located long-term observational data from surface and space to study decadal changes of the shortwave energy balance in Europe and China from 1985 to 2015. Within this observation-based framework, we show that an increasing net shortwave radiation at the top of the atmosphere and a decreasing atmospheric shortwave absorption each contribute roughly half of the observed brightening trends in Europe. For China, we find that the continued dimming until 2005 and the subsequent brightening occurred despite opposing trends in the top-of-the-atmosphere net shortwave radiation. This shows that changes in atmospheric shortwave absorption are a major driver of European brightening and the dominant cause for the Chinese surface trends. Although the observed variations cannot be attributed unambiguously, we discuss potential causes for the observed changes. © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	absorption; aerosol; brightness temperature; shortwave radiation; China; Europe
来源期刊	Nature Geoscience
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/124506
作者单位	Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; National Meteorological Information Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; Department of Meteorology, National Centre for Earth Observation, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Schwarz M.,Folini D.,Yang S.,et al. Changes in atmospheric shortwave absorption as important driver of dimming and brightening[J],2020,13(2).
APA	Schwarz M.,Folini D.,Yang S.,Allan R.P.,&Wild M..(2020).Changes in atmospheric shortwave absorption as important driver of dimming and brightening.Nature Geoscience,13(2).
MLA	Schwarz M.,et al."Changes in atmospheric shortwave absorption as important driver of dimming and brightening".Nature Geoscience 13.2(2020).