Modeling Quiet Solar Luminosity Variability from TSI Satellite Measurements and Proxy Models during 1980–2018
| dc.contributor.author | Scafetta, Nicola | |
| dc.contributor.author | Willson, Richard C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lee, Jae | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wu, Dong L. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-14T14:05:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-14T14:05:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-11-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A continuous record of direct total solar irradiance (TSI) observations began with a series of satellite experiments in 1978. This record requires comparisons of overlapping satellite observations with adequate relative precisions to provide useful long term TSI trend information. Herein we briefly review the active cavity radiometer irradiance monitor physikalisch-meteorologisches observatorium davos (ACRIM-PMOD) TSI composite controversy regarding how the total solar irradiance (TSI) has evolved since 1978 and about whether TSI significantly increased or slightly decreased from 1980 to 2000. The main question is whether TSI increased or decreased during the so-called ACRIM-gap period from 1989 to 1992. There is significant discrepancy between TSI proxy models and observations before and after the gap, which requires a careful revisit of the data analysis and modeling performed during the ACRIM-gap period. In this study, we use three recently proposed TSI proxy models that do not present any TSI increase during the ACRIM-gap, and show that they agree with the TSI data only from 1996 to 2016. However, these same models significantly diverge from the observations from 1981 and 1996. Thus, the scaling errors must be different between the two periods, which suggests errors in these models. By adjusting the TSI proxy models to agree with the data patterns before and after the ACRIM-gap, we found that these models miss a slowly varying TSI component. The adjusted models suggest that the quiet solar luminosity increased from the 1986 to the 1996 TSI minimum by about 0.45 W/m² reaching a peak near 2000 and decreased by about 0.15 W/m² from the 1996 to the 2008 TSI cycle minimum. This pattern is found to be compatible with the ACRIM TSI composite and confirms the ACRIM TSI increasing trend from 1980 to 2000, followed by a long-term decreasing trend since. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The work is supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Sun-climate research at Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA also supported R. C. Willson under contracts 1405003 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ROSES 2016 Contract NNH15C0020. The authors thank ACRIM, PMOD, SORCE, VIRGO, NRLTSI, and SATIRE team for data. The authors thank Gueymard and Dudok de Wit for having provided us their TSI models and records. The authors do not have any conflict of interest to declare. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/21/2569 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 27 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2s7kn-g2mr | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Scafetta, Nicola, Richard C. Willson, Jae N. Lee, and Dong L. Wu. 2019. "Modeling Quiet Solar Luminosity Variability from TSI Satellite Measurements and Proxy Models during 1980–2018" Remote Sensing 11, no. 21: 2569. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11212569 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11212569 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/24379 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | MDPI | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.rights | This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law. | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ | * |
| dc.title | Modeling Quiet Solar Luminosity Variability from TSI Satellite Measurements and Proxy Models during 1980–2018 | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9814-9855 | en_US |