Areal Average Albedo (AREALAVEALB)

Riihimaki, Laura; Marinovici, Cristina; Kassianov, Evgueni; Zhang, Damao; Riihimaki, Laura

doi:10.5439/1209102

Title: Areal Average Albedo (AREALAVEALB)

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he Areal Averaged Albedo VAP yields areal averaged surface spectral albedo estimates from MFRSR measurements collected under fully overcast conditions via a simple one-line equation (Barnard et al., 2008), which links cloud optical depth, normalized cloud transmittance, asymmetry parameter, and areal averaged surface albedo under fully overcast conditions.

Authors:: Riihimaki, Laura; Marinovici, Cristina; Kassianov, Evgueni; Zhang, Damao; Riihimaki, Laura

Publication Date:: Thu Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2023

DOE Contract Number:: DE-AC05-00OR22725

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Archive; Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Center

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Collaborations:: PNL, BNL,ANL,ORNL

Subject:: 54 Environmental Sciences

Keywords:: arealavealb

OSTI Identifier:: 1209102

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.5439/1209102

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                    Riihimaki, Laura, Marinovici, Cristina, Kassianov, Evgueni, Zhang, Damao, and Riihimaki, Laura. Areal Average Albedo (AREALAVEALB).  United States: N. p., 2023. 
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                    Riihimaki, Laura, Marinovici, Cristina, Kassianov, Evgueni, Zhang, Damao, & Riihimaki, Laura. Areal Average Albedo (AREALAVEALB).  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.5439/1209102

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                    Riihimaki, Laura, Marinovici, Cristina, Kassianov, Evgueni, Zhang, Damao, and Riihimaki, Laura. 2023.  
"Areal Average Albedo (AREALAVEALB)".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.5439/1209102.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1209102. Pub date:Thu Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2023

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  abstractNote = {he Areal Averaged Albedo VAP yields areal averaged surface spectral albedo estimates from MFRSR measurements collected under fully overcast conditions via a simple one-line equation (Barnard et al., 2008), which links cloud optical depth, normalized cloud transmittance, asymmetry parameter, and areal averaged surface albedo under fully overcast conditions.},

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