0 the amount of the light hitting a surface that it reflects back, especially the surface of a planet or other body in space: --
As the ice shelves melt, more trees grow, which might actually make things worse by reducing the albedo effect.
The albedo effect - the reflection of 80% of the sun's heat by the snow and ice - keeps temperatures in the region cool.
Scientists detected what could be a 2.5 percent decrease in Earth's albedo over the past five years.
Open water is one of the substances with the lowest albedo that we have on Earth.
The red band was the least effective because of the in-uence of soil albedo and image vignetting.
The planetary albedo is not a constant factor : it depends on the state of the climate itself, through the amount of clouds and ice.
It represents major gradients in key climatological parameters such as carbon flux, water flux and albedo.
These high-albedo zones could be the remnant of sabkha or dusty materials composed of iron oxides, sulphates and other evaporates.
Balancing the ice-albedo cooling and the greenhouse warming gives rise to two stable climate states.
The difference in albedo is a factor of y10.
Information on the albedos and densities of those giants showing transits will be obtained.
The figure shows the zonal-mean distribution, so the albedo and thermal inertia have been zonally averaged in the calculation.
