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    Global dimming is a decline in the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface. It is caused by atmospheric particulate matter, predominantly sulfate...
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    by changes in cloud cover alone. After 1990, the global dimming trend had clearly switched to global brightening. This followed measures taken to combat...
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    sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere, which reflect sunlight and cause global dimming. After 1970, the increasing accumulation of greenhouse gases and controls...
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    modification) to reduce global warming. This would introduce aerosols into the stratosphere to create a cooling effect via global dimming and increased albedo...
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    concentrations in the atmosphere cause reductions in visible sunlight known as global dimming. These particles affect the clouds in multiple ways, mostly making them...
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  • formation of a word Din (disambiguation) Global dimming This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dim. If an internal link led you here...
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  • climatologist, known for his discovery and contributions to the theory of global dimming. Ohmura was born in the Bunkyō ward of Tokyo in 1942. In 1965 he graduated...
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    (outweighed by increases in greenhouse gases) and also have contributed to global dimming. Orbital forcing refers to the slow, cyclical changes in the tilt of...
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    Stanhill G, Cohen S (2001). "Global dimming: a review of the evidence for a widespread and significant reduction in global radiation with discussion of...
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    concentrations (which have a reflective effect, also associated with global dimming, and with some solar geoengineering proposals) and result in overall...
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  • future, a global dimming event is observed, coinciding with the formation of a bright line from the Sun to Venus. The exponential rate of dimming is calculated...
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    turning 1816 into the "year without a summer" due to the levels of global dimming sulfate aerosols and ash expelled. The larger Mount Toba eruption, which...
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    dispersion modeling Chlorofluorocarbon Combustion Exhaust gas Haze Global dimming Global distillation Indoor air quality Ozone depletion Particulates Persistent...
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  • pioneering model for management of the global commons. Global dimming is the gradual reduction in the amount of global direct irradiance at the Earth's surface...
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    (category) Natural environment Global biodiversity Invasive species Columbian Exchange Climate change Global dimming Global warming Ozone depletion Planetary...
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    Earth's surface was observed. This phenomenon is popularly known as global dimming, and is primarily attributed to sulfate aerosols produced by the combustion...
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    been linked to a phenomenon called global dimming. In 2005 Wild et al. and Pinker et al. found that the "dimming" trend had reversed since about 1990...
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    A global catastrophic risk or a doomsday scenario is a hypothetical event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, even endangering or destroying...
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    also be caused by anthropogenic sulfur pollution, where it is known as global dimming. Cooling from a high latitude volcanic eruption could have accelerated...
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    as the sulfurous aerosol rising from a megavolcano, producing deep global dimming. This is controversially purported to have occurred following the Toba...
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    cooling effects as well (later referred to as global dimming). Other theories for the causes of global warming were also proposed, involving forces from...
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    dispersion modeling Chlorofluorocarbon Combustion Exhaust gas Haze Global dimming Global distillation Indoor air quality Ozone depletion Particulates Persistent...
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  • similar principle Environmental impact of aviation Fallstreak hole Global dimming Ship tracks Skywriting Space jellyfish Twomey effect "Aircraft Contrails...
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    through informed choices See Classification, "Category A, UN 2900" See Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals for chemical...
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    (BSRN), which provides crucial well-calibrated measurements for studying global dimming and brightening. Data on surface longwave radiation and OLR is available...
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    dispersion modeling Chlorofluorocarbon Combustion Exhaust gas Haze Global dimming Global distillation Indoor air quality Ozone depletion Particulates Persistent...
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    Notably, the United Nations has also recently projected that nearly all global population growth from 2017 to 2030 will be by cities, with about 1.1 billion...
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    Stanhill, G.; S. Cohen (2001). "Global dimming: a review of the evidence for a widespread and significant reduction in global radiation with discussion of...
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    the other hand absorbs ultraviolet. Global cooling through volcanism is the sum of the influence of the global dimming and the influence of the high albedo...
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    international reference atmosphere (CIRA) Environmental effects of aviation Global dimming Instrumental temperature record Reference atmospheric model "Gateway...
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