Erratum to: Solar Phys (2013) 282:615–627 DOI 10.1007/s11207-012-0129-z

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Acknowledgements I would like to thank Ellsworth G. Dutton for providing me with the latest version of the Mauna Loa Observatory terrestrial solar irradiance data and for many helpful comments on these data. I am grateful to the anonymous referee for a thorough review. This research has made use of NASA’s Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services.