Surface Albedo
Influence of spatial heterogeneity of local surface albedo on the area-averaged surface albedo retrieved from airborne irradiance measurements
... of surface reflectivity on the area-averaged surface albedo to quantify how well aircraft measurements can resolve the small-scale variability of the local surface ...heterogeneous ...
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Parameterization of the snow-covered surface albedo in the Noah-MP Version 1.0 by implementing vegetation effects
... snow surface albedo through field measurements and satellite observations as well (Henderson-Sellers and Wilson, 1983; Jin et ...on albedo. Although the spatial distribution of albedo ...
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Monitoring changes in forestry and seasonal snow using surface albedo during 1982–2016 as an indicator
... Surface albedo is determined by the quantity and type of land vegetation, the seasonal cycle of leaf development and the existence of snow cover. The snow conditions also depend on the vegetation cover. ...
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Development of a high spectral resolution surface albedo product for the ARM Southern Great Plains central facility
... The albedo values calculated from estimated irradiances show more vari- ability with cloud fraction, with slightly larger mean residu- als for overcast clouds than for other cloud ...on surface ...
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Land surface albedo and vegetation feedbacks enhanced the millennium drought in south east Australia
... the surface feedbacks affect the development in particular locations or drought ...the surface feedbacks were responsible for up to 30 % of the precipitation deficit during the ...the surface ...
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Seasonal changes in surface albedo of Himalayan glaciers from MODIS data and links with the annual mass balance
... of surface albedo for two Himalayan glaciers, Chhota Shigri Glacier (Himachal Pradesh, India) and Mera Glacier (Ever- est region, Nepal), and to reconstruct the annual mass bal- ance of these glaciers based ...
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A database of global reference sites to support validation of satellite surface albedo datasets (SAVS 1.0)
... for surface albedo evaluation would also cover a wide range of possible albedo values, meaning that dark as well as bright reference sites should be identified and cover a wide range of different ...
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Spatiotemporal variability of Canadian High Arctic glacier surface albedo from MODIS data, 2001–2016
... the surface albedo over the QEI glaciers and ice caps in summer ...broadband surface albedo (Schaaf et ...MCD43A3 albedo is calculated daily for local solar noon using atmospherically ...
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Quality assessment and improvement of the EUMETSAT Meteosat Surface Albedo Climate Data Record
... sky albedo retrievals over multiple years. If the true change in land surface albedo, represented by the time series slope, is exactly zero, one can expect the retrieved slopes to be distributed ...
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The impact of increasing urban surface albedo on outdoor summer thermal comfort within a university campus
... The albedo of the roof and walls was increased from ...the albedo of the courtyard walls and roof led to higher mean radiant temperatures within the ...the albedo by ...the surface ...
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An interactive ocean surface albedo scheme (OSAv1.0): formulation and evaluation in ARPEGE-Climat (V6.1) and LMDZ (V5A)
... ocean surface albedo ...energy surface balance and affects in turn the whole climate ...sea surface temperature and may, in turn, influence the geographic structure of large-scale atmospheric ...
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Satellite observations of changes in snow-covered land surface albedo during spring in the Northern Hemisphere
... snow albedo decreases more as temperature is ...snow surface area (SSA), a parameter depending on the microstructure of the snowpack and re- lated to the snow albedo, decreases in isothermal ...of ...
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Stand age and species composition effects on surface albedo in a mixedwood boreal forest
... mer albedo, and an exponential decrease in winder albedo, with stand age (Amiro et ...summer albedo in young stands (Lukeš et ...snow albedo to dominate, contributing to the high winter ...
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Monitoring spatial and temporal variations of surface albedo on Saint Sorlin Glacier (French Alps) using terrestrial photography
... glacier albedo from terrestrial photography that addressed the topo- graphic effects on incident and reflected ...the surface. In addition, it requires at least one measurement of albedo to be made ...
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Atmospheric effect on the ground-based measurements of broadband surface albedo
... Eq. (1). The required reflectance spectra were directly de- rived from the USGS Spectroscopy Lab data base (Clark et al., 2007). Then only the BRDF was needed to obtain the surface albedo estimate. At this ...
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Critical surface albedo and its implications to aerosol remote sensing
... or albedo close to the CSA will result in large errors due to the low sensitivity of the observed quantity (radiance or in- tensity at TOA) to the retrieved ...estimated surface albedo lead to large ...
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Developing a monthly radiative kernel for surface albedo change from satellite climatologies of Earth's shortwave radiation budget: CACK v1.0
... an albedo change kernel based on the CERES EBAF v4 products (Kato et ...to albedo change kernels based on so- phisticated radiative transfer schemes embedded in GCMs, a CERES-based albedo change ...
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The surface albedo of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 1982 and 2015 from the CLARA-A2 dataset and its relationship to the ice sheet's surface mass balance
... Greenland surface albedo trends, 1982–2015 The Theil–Sen decadal albedo trend estimates are shown in ...their albedo estimates are likely both externally forced and less ...sheet albedo ...
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Validation of the sea ice surface albedo scheme of the regional climate model HIRHAM–NAOSIM using aircraft measurements during the ACLOUD/PASCAL campaigns
... the surface albedo is required. Therefore, the sea ice surface (SIS) albedo parame- terization of the coupled regional climate model HIRHAM– NAOSIM was examined against broadband ...
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A minimal, statistical model for the surface albedo of Vestfonna ice cap, Svalbard
... Its surface albedo plays a key role in the un- derstanding and modelling of its energy and mass ...for albedo evolution, ...Hence, surface albedo can be expected to develop a comparable ...
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