MODIS White Sky Albedo image improves Climate Modeling
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The MODIS instrument, flying aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, measures how much solar radiation is reflected by the Earth's surface almost every day over the entire planet. The colors in this image emphasize the albedos ranging from 0.0 to 0.4 over the Earth's land surfaces. Areas colored red show the brightest, most reflective regions; yellows and greens are intermediate values; and blues and violets show relatively dark surfaces. White indicates no data were available, and no albedo data are provided over the oceans. This image was produced using data composited over a 6-day period, from April 7-22, 2002.
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This annimation shows a global view of the Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) version of the global broadband white sky albedo. The product correlates 16 days worth of data
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CMG Albedo of Africa
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Flat Map of the climate Modeling grid Albedo
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Color Bar ranges from 0.0(violet) to 0.4(red). An albedo of 0.0 denotes the area does not scatter light and albedo of 1 represents 100% of the incident of light
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| Animation Number: | 2478 |
| Animator: | Lori Perkins (Lead) |
| Studio: | SVS |
| Completed: | 2002-07-01 |
| Scientists: | Crystal Schaaf (Boston University) |
| | Elena Tsvetsinskaya (Boston University) |
| Instrument: | Terra/MODIS |
| Data Collected: | 2002/04/07 - 2002/04/22 |
| Series: | MODIS Albedo |
| Video: | SVS2002-0016 * |
Keywords:
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>> Albedo
DLESE
>> Climatology
SVS
>> Forecast
DLESE
>> Physical geography
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More Information on this topic available at:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2002/200207099816.html
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Please give credit for this item to
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio |
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