Relationships between surface albedo and spring heat accumulation

Sirje Keevallik; Heino Tooming

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v48i5.12202

Relationships between surface albedo and spring heat accumulation

Tellus

Volume 48 (1996): Issue 5

By: Sirje Keevallik and Heino Tooming

Open Access

|Jan 1996

Abstract

A correlation is found between the June warmth index and the March surface albedo at Tartu-Tõravere Actinometric Station for the period 1953—1992. To investigate the relationships between surface albedo and spring heat accumulation over larger areas, ISCCP C2-level data for the period 1984—1990 are used. Based on the concept of surface thermal forcing, a possibility to estimate spring heat accumulation is shown. At 45—60°N in Europe, the tendencies in heat accumulation during spring of an extremal year may be predicted by surface albedo in February or March.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v48i5.12202 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 727 - 732

Submitted on: Oct 6, 1995

Accepted on: Apr 1, 1996

Published on: Jan 1, 1996

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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© 1996 Sirje Keevallik, Heino Tooming, published by Stockholm University Press
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Volume 48 (1996): Issue 5