albedo

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With a total forcing of 3.8 W / m2 - albedo (-2) and solar (-.2 or -.3), we are still left with significant warming.

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  1. noun The fraction of incident electromagnetic radiation reflected by a surface, especially of a celestial body.
  2. noun The spongy white tissue on the inside of the rind of citrus fruit.

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  • Astronomers call a planet's net effectivity the albedo, and a mere half of one percent decrease in Earth's would solve the greenhouse problem completely. —  EBSCOhost
  • Growing trees to sop up CO 2 then also increases albedo, a positive feedback bonus. —  EBSCOhost
  • First they are going to increase the albedo -- the reflectivity -- of your polar ice caps. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 05 - May 2001
  • Their albedo was almost zero: they absorbed more than 99 percent of the incident sunlight. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
  • The word albedo refers to the percentage of light an object reflects.
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  1. Late Latin albēdō, whiteness, from Latin albus, white; see albho- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, whiteness, from albas, white.
 

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