{"schemaVersion":"report-figure-v1","report":{"slug":"solar-brightening-dimming","title":"Brightening and Dimming: The Sky Is Not a Constant","url":"https://solaranalytica.com/solar-brightening-dimming","datePublished":"2026-04-23","lastReviewed":"2026-07-26"},"figure":{"id":"instrument-agreement","title":"Per-market agreement between the two instruments","unit":"% change in GHI, MERRA-2 against CERES","valueLabel":"MERRA-2","valueBLabel":"CERES","caption":"The same ten markets, one panel each, both instruments on one scale. Bars above the line brightened and bars below dimmed, so a market where the two point opposite ways is visible without reading a number. Shanghai (blue) is that market, and its trend is treated as unresolved.","series":[{"label":"Berlin","value":6.8,"valueB":4},{"label":"London","value":3.6,"valueB":3.8},{"label":"Santiago","value":3.5,"valueB":6},{"label":"Athens","value":3.3,"valueB":2.4},{"label":"Perth","value":1,"valueB":0.7},{"label":"Riyadh","value":-1.5,"valueB":-1.5},{"label":"Shanghai","value":-2.6,"valueB":0.5},{"label":"Jakarta","value":-2.9,"valueB":-3.8},{"label":"Reykjavik","value":-4.1,"valueB":-4.2},{"label":"Jodhpur","value":-6.1,"valueB":-4}]},"csv":"https://solaranalytica.com/reports/solar-brightening-dimming/figures/instrument-agreement/data.csv","publicationState":"fixed-edition","boundary":"The figure remains bound to the report edition. A newer upstream release creates a review obligation and never rewrites these rows automatically."}