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Analysis of Seasonal Variation of Surface Shortwave Broadband Albedo on Tibetan Plateau from MODIS Data

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Surface albedo is one of the main factors in climate modeling, and is widely used in the energy balance analysis for the coupled atmosphere and surface system. While the surface albedo of the Tibetan Plateau, located in the southwest of China, is of great significance to the study of China and the global climate. This paper aims to analysis seasonal changes of surface albedo in Tibetan Plateau by using MODIS (MODrate-resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer) global albedo product and land cover type dataset, and to obtain statistically the spatial and seasonal variations over this region.

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The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41305019). Many thanks to Prof. Crystal Schaaf from University of Massachusetts Boston, who provided the MODIS albedo dataset.

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Zhang, Z., Cui, S., Li, X. (2017). Analysis of Seasonal Variation of Surface Shortwave Broadband Albedo on Tibetan Plateau from MODIS Data. In: Yuan, H., Geng, J., Bian, F. (eds) Geo-Spatial Knowledge and Intelligence. GRMSE 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 698. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3966-9_48

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