Not exact matches
From 1899 to 1962, those ice fields more exposed to direct
solar radiation «wasted drastically» while those
in narrow, shaded grooves
changed very
little, said Dr. Stefan L. Hastenrath, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, who is a longstanding expert on African glaciology.
We know the Asian aerosols have gone up, but for the Earth as a whole, there is very, very
little change in the reflected
solar radiation (just a blip from Mount Pinatubo
in 1991 - 1993).
Estimates of Northern hemisphere surface temperatures from 1610 to 1800 — during part of the so - called
Little Ice Age — correlate well with a reconstruction of
changes in solar total
radiation — around the time of the Maunder Minimum (Fig. 2c).