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  - display_name: 'Data Archive : Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center '
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      display_name: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center
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description: 'ABSTRACT: The objective of this work was to produce a monthly climatology of broadband surface albedos for use in global numerical weather prediction models at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). Monthly means of clear-sky, surface, broadband, snow-free albedos for overhead sun illumination angle were determined using data from a five-year period from April 1985-December 1987 and January 1989-March 1991. The data set is compatible in temporal coverage and spatial resolution with a monthly climatology of green vegetation fraction (Gutman and Ignatov, 1998) delivered earlier and currently in use at NCEP. Files showing the differences between the original data set and the Land/water mask used in the International Satellite land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Initiative II are also provided.'
description_attribution: http://daac.ornl.gov//ISLSCP_II/guides/noaa_albedo_5year-av_xdeg.html
display_name: ISLSCP II NOAA 5-year Average Monthly Snow-free Albedo from AVHRR
doi: 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/959
end_time: 1991-03-31T00:00:00
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identifier: nasa-ornldaac-959
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    display_name: national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration-14/advanced-very-high-resolution-radiometer-2/nasa-ornldaac-959
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    display_name: terra/moderate-resolution-imaging-spectroradiometer/nasa-ornldaac-959
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name: ISLSCP II NOAA 5-year Average Monthly Snow-free Albedo from AVHRR
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start_time: 1985-04-01T00:00:00
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