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TI: Variability of MODIS Albedo for Major Global Vegetation Types
AU: * Gao, F
EM: fgao@bu.edu
AF: Department of Geography and Center for Remote Sensing, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215 United States
AU: Schaaf, C
EM: schaaf@crsa.bu.edu
AF: Department of Geography and Center for Remote Sensing, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215 United States
AU: Strahler, A
EM: alan@bu.edu
AF: Department of Geography and Center for Remote Sensing, 675 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215 United States
AU: Lucht, W
AF: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, PO Box 601203, Potsdam, D-14412 Germany
AB: The global coarse resolution latitude/longitude land surface albedo data sets derived from the Terra MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) have been completed for use by the global modeling community. This paper describes these Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) and Albedo Climate Model Grid (CMG) products and their variability within major global vegetation types. Preliminary results reveal that these coarse resolution global albedos have the spatial and latitudinal patterns appropriate for the underlying IGBP land cover classes, further encouraging modelers to introduce albedos as variants of ground cover, geographic location, temporal season and spatial resolution in the various climate modeling schemes.
DE: 0400 Biogeosciences
DE: 1640 Remote sensing
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting