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Long-Term Variations of Global Solar Radiation and Its Potential Effects at Dome C (Antarctica)

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  • Jianhui Bai

    (LAGEO, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China)

  • Xuemei Zong

    (LAGEO, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China)

  • Christian Lanconelli

    (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Via Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra, Italy)

  • Angelo Lupi

    (Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP), National Research Council of Italy, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy)

  • Amelie Driemel

    (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Am Handelshafen, 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany)

  • Vito Vitale

    (Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP), National Research Council of Italy, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy)

  • Kaili Li

    (Nanjing Zhongkehuaxing Emergency Science and Technology Research Institute, Nanjing 211899, China)

  • Tao Song

    (Nanjing Zhongkehuaxing Emergency Science and Technology Research Institute, Nanjing 211899, China)

Abstract

An empirical model to predict hourly global solar irradiance under all-sky conditions as a function of absorbing and scattering factors has been applied at the Dome C station in the Antarctic, using measured solar radiation and meteorological variables. The calculated hourly global solar irradiance agrees well with measurements at the ground in 2008–2011 (the model development period) and at the top of the atmosphere (TOA). This model is applied to compute global solar irradiance at the ground and its extinction in the atmosphere caused by absorbing and scattering substances during the 2006–2016 period. A sensitivity study shows that the responses of global solar irradiance to changes in water vapor and scattering factors (expressed by water vapor pressure and S/G, respectively; S and G are diffuse and global solar irradiance, respectively) are nonlinear and negative, and that global solar irradiance is more sensitive to changes in scattering than to changes in water vapor. Applying this empirical model, the albedos at the TOA and the surface in 2006–2016 are estimated and found to agree with the satellite-based retrievals. During 2006–2016, the annual mean observed and estimated global solar exposures decreased by 0.05% and 0.09%, respectively, and the diffuse exposure increased by 0.68% per year, associated with the yearly increase of the S/G ratio by 0.57% and the water vapor pressure by 1.46%. The annual mean air temperature increased by about 1.80 °C over the ten years, and agrees with the warming trends for all of Antarctica. The annual averages were 316.49 Wm −2 for the calculated global solar radiation, 0.332 for S/G, −46.23 °C for the air temperature and 0.10 hPa for the water vapor pressure. The annual mean losses of solar exposure due to absorbing and scattering substances and the total loss were 4.02, 0.19 and 4.21 MJ m −2 , respectively. The annual mean absorbing loss was much larger than the scattering loss; their contributions to the total loss were 95.49% and 4.51%, respectively, indicating that absorbing substances are dominant and play essential roles. The annual absorbing, scattering and total losses increased by 0.01%, 0.39% and 0.28% per year, respectively. The estimated and satellite-retrieved annual albedos increased at the surface. The mechanisms of air-temperature change at two pole sites, as well as a mid-latitude site, are discussed.

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  • Jianhui Bai & Xuemei Zong & Christian Lanconelli & Angelo Lupi & Amelie Driemel & Vito Vitale & Kaili Li & Tao Song, 2022. "Long-Term Variations of Global Solar Radiation and Its Potential Effects at Dome C (Antarctica)," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(5), pages 1-30, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:5:p:3084-:d:765105
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