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Observed Long-Term Variations of Solar Irradiance at the Earth's Surface

Ohmura, A.

In: Space Science Reviews, 2006, vol. 125, no. 1-4, p. 111-128

Université de Fribourg

Strong Alpine glacier melt in the 1940s due to enhanced solar radiation

Huss, Matthias ; Funk, M. ; Ohmura, A.

In: Geophysical Research Letters, 2009, vol. 36, p. L23501

A 94-year time series of annual glacier melt at four high elevation sites in the European Alps is used to investigate the effect of global dimming and brightening of solar radiation on glacier mass balance. Snow and ice melt was stronger in the 1940s than in recent years, in spite of significantly higher air temperatures in the present decade. An inner Alpine radiation record shows that in the...