How to Use albedo in a Sentence

albedo

noun

• An albedo is simply the amount of light reflected by a planet back into space.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 July 2023
• The scientists said a big factor of surface heat is the albedo, or the amount of light reflection.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
• His best guess is that sea ice, or rather the lack of it, played a big role, thanks to something called the albedo effect.
  — Kendall Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
• But when the ice melts, dark water with a low albedo is exposed.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2014
• The more reflective a surface is, the higher the surface’s albedo.
  — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• On the other hand, if dry air from above the cloud mixes in (entrainment), the cloud may produce rain and have a lower albedo.
  — Kate Murphy, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Sep. 2021
• The researchers found no correlation, which means that changes in Earth’s albedo is caused by something on the Earth.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• The albedo of Venus is close to .7, meaning its thick cloud covering reflects about 70% of the light striking it back into space.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 27 Feb. 2020
• Permafrost and loss of albedo are the only two feedbacks with cost estimates at this point.
  — Stephen Leahy, National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
• Red snow means lower albedo, which means more absorbed sunlight and faster snowmelt.
  — Kylie Mohr, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2022
• The idea is that the coating changes the amount of sunlight the asteroid reflects, its albedo, creating a thrust that redirects it.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2021
• The scientists used the device to record the snow’s albedo, a measure of what fraction of the sunlight beaming down is reflected back up.
  — Kylie Mohr, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2022
• Less sea ice coverage also means that less sunlight will be reflected off the surface of the ocean in a process known as the albedo effect.
  — Washington Post, 27 July 2017
• The albedo effect is particularly acute in the summer, when the Arctic is bathed in 24 hours of sunlight.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
• Normally, bright white snow has a very high albedo, meaning much of the sunlight that hits the surface gets reflected away.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• The second example shows a layered view, using the albedo and a shaded render.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
• Anthropogenic warming causes snow and ice caps to melt, which can make Earth’s albedo decrease.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 18 June 2021
• But could that light curve have instead been produced by a more rounded object with a nonuniform albedo?
  — Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2021
• This makes the reflectiveness, or albedo, different from the regions around it.
  — Cyrus Farivar, WIRED, 5 June 2007
• With an average albedo of 4.4 percent, Bennu is one of the darkest objects in the Solar System.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2020
• The unknown absorbers seem to play a role in this process by affecting the planet’s albedo, or how much energy is reflected back to space.
  — Erica Naone, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2019
• Further complicating these feedback loops, more shrubs in turn make for a warmer Arctic thanks to the decreasing reflectance of the landscape, or its albedo.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
• To boil the albedo effect down to its most basic form, brighter colors reflect heat away from the Earth, whereas darker ones absorb them and contribute to warming.
  — Erik Millar, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• In summer, owing to the albedo effect—light surfaces reflect heat, dark ones absorb it—the pale grass would stay cooler than the brown shrubs that currently blanket the tundra.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• This amount of carbon didn’t have much of an impact on the ice sheet’s overall albedo, or reflectivity, Stohl and Evangeliou said.
  — Megan Gannon, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2018
• The lack of snow cover decreases what’s known as the albedo effect, or the extent to which a surface is capable of reflecting sunlight, and therefore heat, back to space.
  — Tatiana Schlossberg, Outside Online, 25 Mar. 2023
• There is a connection between climate change and albedo: snow and ice, for instance, have a high albedo, reflecting up to 90 percent of the sunlight that hits them back to outer space.
  — Maddie Bender, Scientific American, 18 June 2021
• That is a concern for a variety of reasons: a loss of habitat for Arctic creatures and a decline in the albedo effect, which is when ice reflects sunlight back into space.
  — Scott Dance, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Mar. 2023
• The camera also maintains albedo, displacement, and normal map that are render-ready.
  — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2018
• Less sea ice means the planet's reflectivity (what scientists call albedo) declines and our planet absorbs more heat from the sun.
  — David Freeman, NBC News, 9 May 2017

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024