Surface albedo darkening from wildfires in northern sub-Saharan Africa

Northern sub-Saharan Africa (NSSA) has a wide variety of climate zones or biomes, where albedo dynamics are highly coupled with vegetation dynamics and fire disturbances. Quantifying surface albedo variations due to fire disturbances on time scales of several months to several years is complex and i...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors: C K Gatebe, C M Ichoku, R Poudyal, M O Román, E Wilcox
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2014-01-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/065003