Total solar irradiance satellite composites and their phenomenological effect on climate

摘要

Herein I discuss and propose updated satellite composites of the total solarirradiance covering the period 1978-2008. The composites are compiled frommeasurements made with the three ACRIM experiments. Measurements from theNIMBUS7/ERB and the ERBS/ERBE satellite experiments are used to fill the gapfrom June 1989 to October 1991 between ACRIM1 and ACRIM2 experiments. Theclimate implications of the alternative satellite composites are discussed byusing a phenomenological climate model for reconstructing the total solarirradiance signature on climate during the last four centuries.