On the Contribution of Aerosols and Clouds to Global Dimming and Brightening Using a Radiative Transfer Model, ISCCP-H Cloud and MERRA-2 Aerosol Optical Properties

• Published in: COMECAP 2023
• Main Authors: Michael Stamatis, Nikolaos Hatzianastassiou, Marios-Bruno Korras-Carraca, Christos Matsoukas, Martin Wild, Ilias Vardavas
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: aerosols; clouds; global dimming and brightening; radiation transfer model; MERRA-2; ISCCP-H; Arctic; Merra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2023026034

The interdecadal changes of the incident solar radiation at the Earth’s surface (SSR) are mainly driven by changes in clouds and aerosols. In order to investigate their contribution to the SSR changes (global dimming and brightening or GDB), the FORTH radiative transfer model (RTM) is used to comput...