albedo, Tag

All life on Earth (somehow) originates from the Sun's heat. But how much of the solar irradiation reaches us Earthlings?

Snow – those marvelous little crystals of frozen water that drift down from the sky – in gentle silence, in the fury of an artic-like blizzard, or in any and everything in between...

This Model was created to encourage scientist to collect the information necessary to determine the Earth’s ET change over time, the area of “special parcels”  and plume size.  This Model shows that this data is necessary...

Statistical uncertainty in the CERES and Cloud data seem to retard acceptance of alternative GW theories.

For years, the brightness symmetry between hemispheres remained a mystery.

By Charles Blaisdell PhD ChE The earth’s cloud cover has long been an important puzzle in climate change.  Cloud cover has many types and varies significantly from year to year. …

Three new studies affirm the increase in absorbed solar radiation associated with decreased reflection by clouds (albedo) has been the “root cause” of the positive Earth Energy Imbalance and global warming since the early...

Current climate models parameterise clouds and atmospheric water is treated as a “Greenhouse Gas” when it exists in the atmosphere as gas, liquid and solid...

Climate models are based on a flawed assumption. Until they can replicate the actual physics of deep convection tightly linked to surface temperature rather than the naive parameterisation of clouds they will remain nothing...

How much of a change in cloudiness would it take to account for the 0.53 W/m2 increase in TOA radiative forcing since 2003?

According to a study whose authors include Ken Caldeira, China's efforts to eliminate its infamous air pollution could cause an additional 0.1C NH warming, because less sunlight will be reflected by aerosols. However, despite...

Guest post by Philip Mulholland 1. Introduction. The following two figures, showing the principal features of the Earth’s Energy Budget, were published in 1997 by the Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OK-First) and are reproduced...

Over the years, scientists have captured spectacular photographs while mapping ice during NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission. Many of the photographs have featured the icy landscapes of Greenland and Antarctica, over...

From ETH ZURICH and the “obvious science” department comes this study that is little more than a recycle of what is already understood about crops and “shininess”, back in 2009 – reflective...

From the American Geophysical Union and the “but we’ll still find a way to blame CO2, just you wait” department. It seems this is a frustrating day for climate-ice researchers, earlier, it was found that...