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nasa-ornldaac-958

ISLSCP II MODIS (Collection 4) Albedo, 2002

ABSTRACT: The MODIS BRDF/Albedo Product (MOD43B) provides measures of clear sky surface albedo every 16 days. Both white-sky albedo (bihemispherical reflectance) and black-sky albedo (directional hemispherical reflectance) at local solar noon are provided for 7 spectral bands and 3 broadbands. Since black-sky albedo represents the direct beam contribution while white-sky represents the completely diffuse contribution, these measures can be linearly combined as a function of the fraction of diffuse skylight (itself a function of optical depth) to provide an actual or instantaneous albedo at local solar noon. This data set provides albedo data for the period January 2002 through December 2002.

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Identified by : ISLSCP_II_MODIS_ALBEDO_2002

This dataset was released on January 01, 2010.

The time range for this dataset is January 01, 2002 to December 31, 2002.

The spatial range for this dataset is -90° to 90° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

This dataset uses data from an instance of the advanced-very-high-resolution-radiometer-2 instrument on the national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration-14 platform.
This dataset uses data from an instance of the moderate-resolution-imaging-spectroradiometer instrument on the terra platform.
DOI : 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/958
Also known as :

• dataset oai:mercury-ops2.ornl.gov:ornldaac_958 (ornl lexicon)
• dataset oai:mercury.ornl.gov:ornldaac_958 (ornl lexicon)