planetary_albedo
completeCreated: June 21, 2018
Proposer: Karl Taylor / Martin Juckes / Robert Pincus
Proposed Date: 2018-06-21
CMIP6 - RFMIP. Add a definition sentence for 'albedo'.
Change Date: June 21, 2018, 2:52 p.m.
Term: planetary_albedo
Unit: 1
Unit ref:
AMIP:
GRIB:
Change Date: June 21, 2018, 2:53 p.m.
Term: planetary_albedo
Unit: 1
Unit ref: UUUU
AMIP:
GRIB:
Change Date: June 21, 2018, 2:53 p.m.
Term: planetary_albedo
Unit: 1
Unit ref: UUUU
AMIP:
GRIB:
Albedo is the ratio of outgoing to incoming shortwave irradiance, where 'shortwave irradiance' means that both the incoming and outgoing radiation are integrated across the solar spectrum.