Snow albedo refers to the reflectivity or whiteness of snow. It is a measure of how much sunlight is reflected back into space by freshly fallen snow, which can impact global climate patterns and affect weather conditions in specific regions.
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Hall and Qu (2006) show that biases of a number of MMD models in reproducing the observed seasonal cycle of land snow cover (especially the spring melt) are tightly related to the large variations in snow albedo feedback strength simulated by the same models in climate change scenarios. (ipcc.ch)
Ibid., pp. 393 — 96; Yun Qian et al., «Effects of Soot - Induced Snow Albedo Change on Snowpack and Hydrological Cycle in Western United States Based on Weather Research and Forecasting Chemistry and Regional Climate Simulations,» Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. (earthpolicy.org)
Evaluation of the MODIS (MOD10A1) daily snow albedo product over the Greenland ice sheet. (nsidc.org)