Impact of Asian Dust Aerosol and Surface Albedo on Photosynthetically Active Radiation and Surface Radiative Balance in Dryland Ecosystems
Figure 3
(a) Mean value (unfilled circles) and standard deviation (error bars) of MODIS narrowband albedo for different dryland ecosystems (barren surface, cropland, grassland, and open shrubland). Data are averaged for the production periods of April 23 (solid curve), May 1 (dash curve), and May 9 (dotted curve) in 2001. (b) Reconstructed spectral surface albedo (solid curves) by merging MODIS albedo with the USGS spectroscopy dataset (dotted curves).
