Global Relationships among the Earth's Radiation Budget, Cloudiness, Volcanic Aerosols, and Surface Temperature

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The analyses of Cess are extended to consider global relationships among the earth's radiation budget (including solar insulation and changes in optically active gass), cloudiness, solar constant, volcanic aerosols, and surface temperature. Interannual variability and correlations between Nimbus-7 THIR/TOMS cloud amount, ERB WFOV longwave, shortwaye, and net radiation, and SAM II aerosol optical depths, along with Hansen and Lebedeff's surface temperature analyses, are assessed. Solar luminosity is apparently related to the global surface temperature in the 1979–1990 time period based on the Nimbus-7 observations and an extended Hansen and Lebedeff temperature dataset. The 0.40°C range in observed global temperatures may be partitioned into a 0.15°C component due to a 2 W m−2 change in the solar constant and a 0.22°C component due to the increasing concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. A relatively large component of the variance in the global temperature, cloudiness, and radiation bud... Abstract The analyses of Cess are extended to consider global relationships among the earth's radiation budget (including solar insulation and changes in optically active gass), cloudiness, solar constant, volcanic aerosols, and surface temperature. Interannual variability and correlations between Nimbus-7 THIR/TOMS cloud amount, ERB WFOV longwave, shortwaye, and net radiation, and SAM II aerosol optical depths, along with Hansen and Lebedeff's surface temperature analyses, are assessed. Solar luminosity is apparently related to the global surface temperature in the 1979–1990 time period based on the Nimbus-7 observations and an extended Hansen and Lebedeff temperature dataset. The 0.40°C range in observed global temperatures may be partitioned into a 0.15°C component due to a 2 W m−2 change in the solar constant and a 0.22°C component due to the increasing concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. A relatively large component of the variance in the global temperature, cloudiness, and radiation bud...

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