Most of what you need to complete the albedo activity is in the handbook, but here you will be able to download the extra resources you’ll need to have a go at the albedo challenges.
Blank tables for Challenge A1, A3 & A4
Excel spreadsheet containing blank versions of Table a1, Table a2, and Table a3.
Hint: go to ‘File’ -> ‘Save as’ to save your own working version of the tables.
Python notebook for Challenge A2
Download the iPython jupyter notebook for producing your graphical report (follow the instructions in the handbook),
Submitting your answers to the Challenges
Instructions: inform a member of the albedo instructor team that you have completed your albedo challenges and arrange a time for them to talk through your answers with you, they will confirm whether you have completed the challenge or not and will give you feedback on the work. Check the deadline for this, and don’t miss it!
Recommended reading
There’s a lot of great literature on this, but a couple of good starting points are:
- Dessler, A., 2022. Introduction to Modern Climate Change (3rd Edition). Chapters 3, 4 and 6. Cambridge University Press. Online.
- Stephens, G.L., O’Brien, D., Webster, P.J., Pilewski, P., Kato, S., Li, J., 2015. ‘The albedo of Earth’. Reviews of Geophysics, 53, 141–163. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014RG000449
Staff file upload
This section is for staff to upload albedometer data from the loggers for teams to complete their Albedo Activity Challenges.
Ensure that the file format is .txt file and that the filename is the team name (all one-word, lower-case and with ‘_’ used for spaces), e.g. group_1.txt
