Cover Candidate for PNAS:Albedo Decrease Linked to Arctic Sea Ice
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- Greg Shirah
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This is the first study to document Arctic-wide decrease in planetary albedo using satellite radiation budget measurements and sea ice data. The study finds a very strong correlation between sea ice cover and planetary albedo.
Here are links to the related NASA press release and the article.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio and
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.
Animator
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
Scientists
- Ian Eisenman (Scripps Institution for Oceanography, UCSD)
- Kristina Pistone (Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, UCSD)
- Veerabhadran Ramanathan (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Project support
- Ian Jones (ADNET)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET)
Papers
This visualization is based on the following papers:Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
Aqua Albedo (Collected with the CERES sensor)
Terra and Aqua BMNG (A.K.A. Blue Marble: Next Generation) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
Dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
See more visualizations using this data setDMSP NSIDC SSMI (A.K.A. Sea Ice Concentration) (Collected with the SSM/I sensor)
NIMBUS-7 SMMR (A.K.A. Sea Ice Concentration) (Collected with the SMMR sensor)
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