Surface Albedo Variation and Its Influencing Factors over Dongkemadi Glacier, Central Tibetan Plateau

Table 1

The difference between TM-derived albedo and AWS-measured albedo.

Date acquired	Path/row	TM-derived values	Measured values	Bias
2008-2-2	137/37	0.6283	0.6705	−0.0422
2008-3-5	137/37	0.8308	0.8507	−0.0199
2008-6-16	138/37	0.6613	0.6231	0.0382
2008-10-22	138/37	0.8217	0.7596	0.0670
2008-10-31	137/37	0.6737	0.6383	0.0354
2008-11-16	137/37	0.7113	0.6877	0.0236
2008-11-23	138/37	0.7713	0.7159	0.0554
2008-12-9	138/37	0.6730	0.6628	0.0101
2009-3-8	137/37	0.6538	0.5885	0.0653
2009-4-16	138/37	0.7096	0.6695	0.0400
2009-4-25	137/37	0.6866	0.6497	0.0369
2009-5-2	138/37	0.6211	0.5469	0.0743
2009-5-18	138/37	0.6750	0.7182	−0.0431
2009-8-31	137/37	0.5418	0.5425	−0.0007