Multidecadal variations of solar radiation reaching the surface and the role of aerosol direct radiative effects

Mian Chin1, Thomas L Diehl2, Huisheng Bian3, Hongbin Yu4, Tom L Kucsera1, Martin Wild Sr5, Maria Zita Hakuba6, Yun Qian7, Paul W Stackhouse Jr8, Rachel T Pinker9, Yuanchong Zhang10, Seiji Kato11, Norman G Loeb11, Stefan Kinne12 and David G Streets13, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Joint Research Center Ispra, Ispra, Italy, (3)Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (7)PNNL / Climate Physics, Richland, WA, United States, (8)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, (9)Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (10)Columbia Univ/NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States, (11)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (12)MPI Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (13)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States