Albedo plays a central role in the climate change energy budgeting, but its generic use (from the astronomy tradition) creates problems of many kinds.
Firstly, even the classic astronomic use appears defective. For example, a very reflective space object would appear dark in color because it reflects the darkness of space. Thus that object would be interpreted as being warmer than a white object (because it appears to absorb more solar radiation than the white object); this is not true because the very reflective object absorbs less radiation than the white object.
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we have shown a few such deficiencies of albedo and have solved those problems. Albedo is just a too large approximation!
The albedo of Earth - Stephens - 2015 - Reviews of ...
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I would argue that reflectivity of a surface is not really measured by it's colour, but by the percentage of incident EMR it reflects back, for the wavelength of interest. In fact there are a lot of accessible studies with field measurements of reflectivity, which use a plethora of methods to deduce the spectral reflectivity of the majority of Earth's dominant surface types.
Moreover your argument appears to have glitches, for example, "darkness of space" isn't something that can be reflected, to mention one.
I am really trying to understand your point, but this introduction alone without any additional technical info, cannot convince me to pay 30aud for this book.
Yes Stamatios, I fully agree and I do not understand why the IPCC climatologists say that since the albedo of forests is 5% larger than that of bare ground, cutting down the forests produce cooling of the Earth. In my publication I show that in fact deforestation has a strong warming effect, not cooling. The IPCC position is regrettable at this time when there is so much deforestation...
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