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How air pollution affects surface solar radiation over decades

Summary by Air Quality News
A new study led by a team of scientists from Switzerland and China suggests that changes in the amount of sunlight reaching Earth (surface solar radiation or SSR) over recent decades has been influenced by levels of air pollution.  The changes in SSR, known as global ‘dimming’ and ‘brightening’ have been especially pronounced in China where a significant dimming effect was seen between the 1960s and the 1990s. This was seen to diminish and becom…
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Air Quality News broke the news in on Friday, April 25, 2025.
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