There is increasing evidence that the amount of solar radiation incident at the Earth's surface
is not stable over the years but undergoes significant decadal variations. Here I review the …

近几十年来, 全球和我国大部分区域的地面太阳辐射都经历了一个从减少到增加的过程,
也就是所谓的地球“变暗” 到“变亮”; 引起这种变化的原因复杂多样, 总云量的变化无法完全解释 …

Aerosols play a significant yet complex and central role in the Earth's radiation budget, and
knowledge of long‐term changes in the atmospheric turbidity induced by aerosols is …

Declines in pan evaporation have been reported across the USA, former Soviet Union, India,
China, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, among other places. The trend is large …

We examined the spatiotemporal variation in diurnal temperature range (DTR) and
discussed the reasons for the changes of DTR in China based on data from 479 weather …

This study investigates recent variations in downwelling surface solar radiation inferred from
a comprehensive set of ground‐based observational records updated for the period 2000 …

Observations show that the surface incident solar radiation (Rs) decreased over land from
the 1950s to the 1980s and increased thereafter, known as global dimming and brightening …

It has been widely accepted that diurnal temperature range (DTR) decreased on a global
scale during the second half of the twentieth century. Here we show however, that the long …

The Earth's climate is driven by surface incident solar radiation (R s). Direct measurements
have shown that R s has undergone significant decadal variations. However, a large fraction …

This work analyzes sunshine duration variability in the western part of Europe (WEU) over
the 1938–2004 period. A principal component analysis is applied to cluster the original …