HR: 0830h
AN: A41E-01    [Abstracts]
TI: Seasonal and inter-annual trends in earth's albedo
AU: * Palle, E
EM: epb@bbso.njit.edu
AF: ig Bear Solar Observatory, 40386 North Shore Lane, Big Bear City, CA 92314 United States
AU: Montanes-Rodriguez, P
EM: pmr@bbso.njit.edu
AF: ig Bear Solar Observatory, 40386 North Shore Lane, Big Bear City, CA 92314 United States
AU: Goode, P R
EM: pgoode@bbso.njit.edu
AF: ig Bear Solar Observatory, 40386 North Shore Lane, Big Bear City, CA 92314 United States
AB: Recently measurements of earthshine have been used to determine that there are large decadal scale variability in the earth's short-wave reflectance. Here we will discuss the qualitative and quantitative agreement of these decadal trends with those from other independent studies of the SW forcing of climate. Further, special attention will be given to the continuous earthshine measurements from 1998 to present. The internal consistency of the earthshine dataset over this period of time and its seasonal and inter-annual trends will be analyzed in detail.
DE: 0320 Cloud physics and chemistry
DE: 1610 Atmosphere (0315, 0325)
DE: 1650 Solar variability
DE: 3309 Climatology (1620)
DE: 3359 Radiative processes
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly