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- noun Plural form of
albedo .
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High albedos, cold surface conditions, and ice-sheet height apparently disrupted westerly airflows (or may possibly have maintained a stationary surface high-pressure cell with anticyclonic circulation), which promoted the penetration of dry, warm air from the southeast [59].
Historical changes in freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic 2009
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Blumthaler and Ambach [38] measured erythemally weighted surface albedos for various snow-free surfaces and reported values ranging between 0.01 and 0.11.
Factors affecting surface ultraviolet radiation levels in the Arctic 2009
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It's not easy to measure the reflectivity of very dark objects, but the carbonaceous bodies have albedos as low as 0.04.
Albedo James Killus 2007
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Interesting measurements of albedos of various urban surfaces.
Central Park: Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? « Climate Audit 2007
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It's not easy to measure the reflectivity of very dark objects, but the carbonaceous bodies have albedos as low as 0.04.
Archive 2007-11-01 James Killus 2007
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Near-polar regions have particular properties not so similar closer to the Equator, some mathematical, some temporal, some spatial, some climatic – like different albedos.
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Urban surfaces with high albedos typical of light colours reduce the storage in the materials Doll et al.
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Conventional paving materials have albedos ranging from 0.05 to 0.40 when new.
Cool paving 2007
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The subroutines calculate a wide variety of things, everything from soil type albedos to something called “canopy drip flux” which read like this:
Gavin Schmidt: station data "not used" in climate models « Climate Audit 2007
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For other surfaces, albedos are determined by weighting wavelength-dependent albedos over a mosaic of subgrid soil, vegetation, roads, rooftops, and water.
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