More semantically, shouldn't the W/m2 axis be reversed, such that higheralbedorepresents a negative forcing? Finally, in your description of the figure, you mention Pinatubo's large effect in 1991, but I can't see it in either data set shown in your Figure 2. Am I misinterpreting the ...
Light colored surfaces such as the light tan of a dry, dessert soil or the golden tan of annual grasslands during the summer have higher albedos (approximately 0.3 from this data). Snow, being close to pure white, has the highest albedo at 0.7 û 0.9. Also of interest is th... ...
The reform worsened the implications related to the degradation of the soils and to the pressure of its water bodies: in fact, the complete realization of the irrigation works triggered that specialization process towards an intense irrigated agriculture with a higher rate of profitability, entailing ...
What will this winter’s El Niño bring? slightly higher ocean water temperature off west coast; some fish species may migrate northwards some winter rain in north-west increased winter storms, and cooler temperatures, along east coast; risk of flooding, mudslides reduced summer rainfall in Mex...
The reasons for this effect are mainly the increased absorption of latent heat by the high evapotranspiration from the oasis surface2,27 and the higher surface albedo of the vegetation than the desert surface2. In addition, increases in local water vapor sources from local evapotranspiration ...
Indeed, the mean temperature novelty in unfragmented, ecologically intact forests was higher than in other undisturbed forests and degraded forests, albeit with greater spatial variance (Fig. 2, Supplementary Table 1 and Extended Data Fig. 2). This outcome can be attributed to lower interannual ...
In contrast, higher surface albedo of grasslands cools surface temperature by −0.5 K and increased Bowen ratio also cools grasslands by −0.25 K (Lee et al., 2011). However, a diurnal asymmetry leads to a stronger surface roughness effect during the day (+2 K warming over grasslands) ...
In SG-1, Daniel Jackson has come Back from the Dead (twice through Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence and later becoming mortal again, the other times through Applied Phlebotinum) so much it's now a Running Gag. One time it happened, it was pointed out that he's been missing for...
(Fig.1a). All scenarios considered show a loss of ice volume. As expected, the longer the convergence time and the higher the overshoot temperature, the larger the ice loss. However, there are important dependencies of the ice-sheet evolution (and thus maximum SLR contributions) on the exact...
26If signification is gradually tainted as a word enters syntax, John goes on to explain, the linguistic state of privilege, the chastity and virginity of pure meaning (albedo), is a quality without “any participation of a subject [sine omni participatione subjecti],,; but the con...