Open AccessOn-the-Ground Measurements Overestimate Earth’s Albedo
Author(s) -
David Shultz
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2017eo079555
Subject(s) - earth (classical element) , albedo (alchemy) , environmental science , remote sensing , meteorology , atmospheric sciences , geology , geography , physics , history , astronomy , performance art , art history
Weather stations can be used to calibrate and validate albedo measurements from satellites, but they fail to account for variability across landscapes, overestimating how reflective our planet is.
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