Albedos of snow, ice, and tundra ... New snow albedo is 0.80; ... Melting sea ice albedo is 0.65;
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www.arcticice.org/albedos.htm
www.arcticice.org/albedos.htm
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Climate change - ice and snow and the albedo effect. Changes in the polar regions can cause more warming in the entire planet earth system through feedback effects. One such effect is the reduction of ice and snow due to warmer temperatures.
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maps.grida.no/go/graphic/climate-change-ice-and-snow-and-the-albedo-effect
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Feedback refers to the modification of a process by changes resulting from the process itself. Positive feedbacks accelerate the process, while negative feedbacks slow it down. ... Climate feedbacks - the connectivity of the positive ice/snow albedo feedback, terrestrial snow and vegetation feedbacks and the negative...
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maps.grida.no/go/graphic/climate-feedbacks-the-connectivity-of-the-positive-ice-snow-albedo-feedback-terrestrial-snow-and-vegetation-feedbacks-and-the-negative-cloud-radiation-feedback
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The white ice site remained snow covered with a melting snow albedo of 0.7 to 0.8, while the snow melted completely at the pond sites. ... The surface albedo was high (0.8-0.9) and spatially uniform in April. In May there was a gradual decrease in albedo as the snow cover warmed and the snow grain size increased.
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www.crrel.usace.army.mil/sid/perovich/SHEBAice/albevol....
www.crrel.usace.army.mil/sid/perovich/SHEBAice/albevol.htm
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The albedo depends upon spectral band, snow thickness, ice thickness and surface temperature. Snow and ice spectral albedos (visible , wavelengths and near ... Here we ignore the dependence of snow albedo on age, but retain the melting/non-melting distinction and thickness dependence. Dry snow spectral albedos are:
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www.ccsm.ucar.edu/models/atm-cam/docs/description/node3...
www.ccsm.ucar.edu/models/atm-cam/docs/description/node35.html
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This website details a prototype snow albedo algorithm that is being developed for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) which is carried aboard the NASA Terra Spacecraft.
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geog.tamu.edu/klein/modis_albedo/
geog.tamu.edu/klein/modis_albedo/
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The surface albedo is a measure of how much radiation is reflected; snow has a high albedo (~0.8), seawater has a low albedo (~0.1), and land surfaces have intermediate values that vary widely depending mainly on the types and distribution of vegetation.
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www-eps.harvard.edu/people/faculty/hoffman/snowball_pap...
www-eps.harvard.edu/people/faculty/hoffman/snowball_paper.html
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The study shows that the surface albedo over snow-covered forests is probably too high in various state-of-the-art global climate models. The analysis demonstrates that positive biases in SCA are not necessarily related to positive albedo biases.
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www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2005JD006473.shtml
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On ice and snow, it darkens normally bright surfaces. Just as a white shirt keeps a person cooler in the summer than a black shirt, the vast stretches of polar ice covering much of the planet's top and bottom reflect large amounts of solar radiation falling on the planet's surface, ... Soot lowers this albedo,
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svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010000/a010023/index.htm...
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010000/a010023/index.html
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