U.S. Department of EnergyOffice of Scientific and Technical Information
Gridded Surface Albedo
Abstract
Global digital databases of natural vegetation and land use were compiled, for use in climate studies, at 1 degree resolution from over 100 published sources. A series of 6 data sets, derived from the original compilations, was prepared and archived on tape at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) (Matthews, 1984). The first is a vegetation data set representing natural (pre-agricultural) vegetation based on the UNESCO classification system. The second derived from the land-use compilation, is a cultivation-intensity data set defining the areal extent of presently-cultivated land in the 1 degree cells. The last four data sets which comprise this database are integrated surface-albedo data sets (January, April, July, October) for snow-free conditions, incorporating natural-vegetation and cultivation-intensity data sets. Each of these data sets covers the entire surface of the earth. They include non-zero data for permanent land only, including continental ice; water, including oceans and lakes, is zero.*Note: Gridded (1 degree x 1 degree) surface albedo values are expressed as a percentage.
- Authors:
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- Goddard Space Flight Center, Institute for Space Studies
- Publication Date:
- Other Number(s):
- cdiac:Surface_Albedo_Matthews
- Research Org.:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) (United States)
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
- Keywords:
- Albedo; Gridded Surface Albedo; Seasonal Surface Albedo; Elaine Matthews; Gridded Surface Albedo (expressed as a %) (1 degree x 1 degree); Dimension; Scale; Min.; Max.; Number of Records in Data File
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1464233
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.15485/1464233
Citation Formats
Matthews, Elaine. Gridded Surface Albedo. United States: N. p., 1984.
Web. doi:10.15485/1464233.
Matthews, Elaine. Gridded Surface Albedo. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/1464233
Matthews, Elaine. 1984.
"Gridded Surface Albedo". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.15485/1464233. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1464233. Pub date:Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984
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abstractNote = {Global digital databases of natural vegetation and land use were compiled, for use in climate studies, at 1 degree resolution from over 100 published sources. A series of 6 data sets, derived from the original compilations, was prepared and archived on tape at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) (Matthews, 1984). The first is a vegetation data set representing natural (pre-agricultural) vegetation based on the UNESCO classification system. The second derived from the land-use compilation, is a cultivation-intensity data set defining the areal extent of presently-cultivated land in the 1 degree cells. The last four data sets which comprise this database are integrated surface-albedo data sets (January, April, July, October) for snow-free conditions, incorporating natural-vegetation and cultivation-intensity data sets. Each of these data sets covers the entire surface of the earth. They include non-zero data for permanent land only, including continental ice; water, including oceans and lakes, is zero.*Note: Gridded (1 degree x 1 degree) surface albedo values are expressed as a percentage.},
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year = {Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984},
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