Sentences with phrase «proportion of albedo»

Or in other words, what's the proportion of albedo loss relative to CO2 forcing?

Not exact matches

What's more, many other human activities, from building cities to planting crops, alter albedo, and these activities have a much greater impact because they affect a far greater proportion of Earth's surface.

What other things in the Earth system will change when it warms up that will affect how much SW radiation is reflected back into space [eg ice - albedo feedback, cloud changes] or affect what proportion of emitted LW radiation is allowed to escape to space [eg Water Vapour, cloud changes].

«Models fail to reproduce the observed annual cycle in all components of the albedo with any realism, although they broadly capture the correct proportions of surface and atmospheric contributions to the TOA albedo.»

Albedo is the proportion of incoming radiation that is reflected from surface back to where it came from.

According to the ice - albedo feedback mechanism as the Earth warms more ground and water would be uncovered which would absorb a higher proportion of the incoming solar radiation thus raising the temperature and melting more ice and snow.

Albedo is the proportion of solar radiation reflected back into space.

The proportion of incident radiation reflected by a substance is called its albedo.

The central business districts of some urban areas can therefore have quite high albedo rates (proportion of light reflected);

The definition of albedo is the proportion of reflected SW.

Which means that the proportion of heat in the ocean as opposed to the atmosphere might be slightly different (big deal because the oceans store so much heat), that albedo might be slightly higher because you have less areas covered by forests which are darker than clear land and thus absorb more sunlight, and so on.