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Albedo
Albedo is defined as the ratio of total upwelling to total downwelling solar radiation at the surface. It represents the energy balance at the soil-vegetation-atmosphere interface. The albedo allows to quantify the part of the energy that is absorbed by Earth surface and then transformed to heat. The albedo is a unitless variable ranging from…