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The radiation budget at the Earth’s surface is central to all discussions about a possible global climate change. Such a change is believed to be triggered by the wellestablished increase in atmospheric content of radiatively active gases. The physical consequence of this increase is an increased longwave radiation of a few W m-2 from the sky to the surface. The direct detection of this effect would require longwave radiometers — pyrgeometers — with an accuracy better than 1 Wm-2 maintained over a period of several decades. Such instruments and observational programmes do not exist and are unlikely to do so in the foreseeable future.
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Halldin, S. (2004). Radiation Measurements in Integrated Terrestrial Experiments. In: Kabat, P., et al. Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate. Global Change — The IGBP Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18948-7_14
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