NORFOLK, Va. — After Monday’s winter weather, areas around the Peninsulas and the western Southside accumulated three or more inches of snow. And that snow slightly affected high temperatures this ...

Researchers have conducted a detailed study of the albedo (reflectivity) effects of converting land to grow biofuel crops. Based on changes in albedo alone, their findings reveal that greenhouse gas ...

The reflectivity of Arctic sea ice, or albedo, regulates the solar radiation balance. A diminishing albedo affects the melt rate of Arctic sea ice. The reflectivity of Arctic sea ice, or albedo, ...

The retreat of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is diminishing Earth’s albedo, or reflectivity, by an amount considerably larger than previously estimated, according to researchers at Scripps Institution ...

This week’s Sunday Science Tidbit we’re going to talk about albedo. Albedo comes from the latin word “alba” which means white. It describes how reflective something is on a scale from 0 to 1 with 0 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The sun is always shining bright, regardless if clouds obstruct our view or not. The Earth’s surface sometimes absorbs sunlight, while other times it reflects it. The National ...

At a field site just 15 minutes from Michigan Technological University's campus, Alden Adolph and her team of student researchers are studying the reflectivity of melting snow to better understand ...

From undergraduate students to experts with nearly 50 years of experience, Michigan Technological University researchers know snow. In Tech's College of Engineering, five researchers make the most of ...

This episode is about how different objects absorb or reflect light, called albedo. We will use dark things and light things to show how it works. It all comes down to this thing called albedo. White ...

Chris asks in an e-mail what albedo is. The amount of radiant energy reflected from a surface is called the surface's albedo and it’s expressed in percent. For example, water being heated in the ...

We are impressed by the direct Hubble Space Telescope size measurement of Xena by Mike Brown and his team (Brown et al. in press). Measuring the size of such a tiny and moving object is a very ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory have conducted a detailed study of the reflectivity effects of converting land to grow biofuel crops. Their study is ...