The effects of sea-ice and land-snow concentrations on planetary albedo from the earth radiation budget experiment

Atmosphere - Ocean

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-205

  Gorodetskaya, Irina V ^a,b   Cane, Mark A ^a,b   Tremblay, L Bruno ^a,b   Kaplan, Alexey ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA ICE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SNOW COVER; SOLAR RADIATION; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 33745598552     PISSN: 07055900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3137/ao.440206     Document Type: Article

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