Tropical marine clouds contribute one-fifth of Earth’s albedo.But as oceans warm, these clouds are evaporating by about 1.5 percent per decade, taking their reflectivity with them.. Loss of ...

The Earth’s albedo has been declining since the 1970s, according to the report, due in part to the melting of light-colored snow and sea ice, exposing darker land and water which absorb more of ...

Learn more about albedo – the simple measurement that has a vast impact on our planet and influences the climate ...

Decline in lower-altitude clouds reduces Earth's albedo. The albedo of the surface of the Earth has been in decline since the 1970s—due in part to the decline in Arctic snow and sea ice, which ...

Nevertheless, the loss of snow and ice has caused the Earth's reflectivity, termed its albedo, to decline since the 1970s, enhancing the warming a bit. Vanishing clouds ...

The year 2023 — which was 1.48 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average — had the lowest albedo since 1940. In short, ... by declining cloud cover — which could be a potential climate ...

“If a large part of the decline in albedo is indeed due to feedbacks between global warming and low clouds, as some climate models indicate, we should expect rather intense warming in the future ...

Environment We finally have an explanation for 2023’s record-breaking temperatures. A decline in low-lying cloud cover means Earth is absorbing more solar radiation, which could explain 0.2°C ...

Researchers found that in 2023, a decrease in low-altitude clouds, specifically over the Atlantic Ocean, drove an increase in the planet's temperature. DeAgostini / R. Della Chiesa via Getty ...

Noctilucent clouds captured over Sunderland, UK in 2014. (Image credit: Matt Robinson) In recent decades, this captivating phenomenon has been showing up at lower latitudes than ever before.

Decline in lower-altitude clouds reduces Earth's albedo . The albedo of the surface of the Earth has been in decline since the 1970s -- due in part to the decline in Arctic snow and sea ice, ...