Earth's Albedo and Global Warming
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ipy07.sci.ess.watcyc.albedo/earths-albedo-and-global-warming/
http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ipy07.sci.ess.watcyc.albedo/earths-albedo-and-global-warming/
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- Use in conjunction with other activities and discussion about how albedo is involved in climate change.
About the Science
- Images and text are courtesy of NASA/USGS, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Scientific Visualization Studio, and National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
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- The resource is a mixture of text and animated explanations/descriptions, which support each other nicely.
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