Abstract: Albedos of surfaces covered with 50 cm of fresh dry snow following a major U.S. East Coast storm on 11?12 February 1983 ranged from 0.20 over a mixed coniferous forest to 0.80 over open farmland. As the snow cover dissipated, ...

Abstract: Areally weighted clear sky surface albedo of snow-covered land in the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere was measured from satellite imagery in A 1?1° latitude-longitude cells. The study area included 87% ...

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Abstract: Previous work has shown significant decreases of the diurnal temperature range (1941?80) across a network of 130 stations in the United States and Canada. In the present study, changes in monthly total precipitation at ...

Abstract: A statistically significant decrease in mean annual global solar radiation between 1964 and 1990 under completely overcast skies was found at five out of eight studied locations in Germany. A decrease of global solar ...

Abstract: Several equations were developed that related the effect of urban growth, measured by increasing population, to the mean seasonal and annual temperature: the diurnal maximum, minimum, average, and range. These equations ...

Abstract: Visible-band satellite imagery is used to manually map surface brightness changes over sea ice throughout the Arctic Basin from May to mid-August over a 10-yr period. These brightness changes are primarily due to snowmelt ...

Abstract: Monthly mean maximum and minimum temperatures for over 50% (10%) of the Northern (Southern) Hemisphere landmass, accounting for 37% of the global landmass, indicate that the rise of the minimum temperature has occurred at ...