Earth's albedo values are very important in shaping local and global climates through the radiation budget, determined as the difference between the amount of absorbed shortwave radiation (input) and the outgoing longwave radiation (output).
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The albedo of an object is the extent to which it diffusely reflects light from light sources such as the Sun. It is therefore a more specific form of the term reflectivity. Albedo is defined as the...
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Albedo 0.39 is an album by the artist Vangelis, released in 1976. It is a concept album around space and space physics. Albedo 0.39 was the second album produced by Vangelis in Nemo Studios, Lond...
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The planetary averaged albedo is a key climate variable as it, combined with the solar constant determines the radiative energy input to the planet. The global annual averaged albedo is approximately 0.30 (or 30%). The albedo varies quite markedly with geographic region and time of year.
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The albedo of all these different surfaces combined is called the planetary albedo. Earth’s planetary albedo is about 0.31. That means that about a third of the solar energy that gets to Earth is reflected out to space and about two thirds is absorbed.
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The term albedo (Latin for white) is commonly used to applied to the overall average reflection coefficient of an object. For example, the albedo of the Earth is 0.39 (Kaufmann) and this affects the equilibrium temperature of the Earth.
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Even more puzzling, the planet has not cooled. Changes in the clouds may be to blame. ... Earth's albedo is measured by noting how much reflected sunlight in turn bounces off the Moon, something scientists call earthshine. The observations were made at the Big Bear Solar Observatory in California.
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Current information about climate and the environment. ... In the albedo image above, white shows areas where Earth reflected the highest percentage of shortwave solar radiation. Dark blue shows areas where Earth reflected the lowest percentage of shortwave solar radiation.
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NASA's Visible Earth catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet ... MODIS Albedo Globe Unwraps to MODIS Albedo True Color Flat Map ... The MODIS instrument, flying aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, measures how much solar radiation is reflected by the Earth's surface almost every day over the entire planet.
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