Requirements defined for Earth surface albedo (4)
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Note: In reading the values, goal is marked blue,
breakthrough green, threshold orange
Application-dependent Technical Priority (ATP) Magenta and Relative priority of the attributes Red
Id | Variable | Layer | App Area | ATP | Uncertainty | Layer/s Quality | Coverage Quality | Stability / decade | Hor Res | Ver Res | Obs Cyc | Timeliness | Coverage | Conf Level | Val Date | Source | General Comment | Application Area Comment | Horizontal Coverage Comment | Observation Comment | Performance Comment |
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358 | Earth surface albedo | Near Surface | 2.2 High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction | 5 % 10 % 20 % |
0.5 km 4 km 10 km |
60 min 3 h 12 h |
60 min 3 h 12 h |
Global land | reasonable | 2019-12-04 | T Montmerle | ||||||||||
662 | Earth surface albedo | Near Surface | Climate-TOPC (deprecated) | 5 % 7 % 10 % |
1 km 2 km 10 km |
24 h 3 d 30 d |
30 d 45 d 90 d |
Global | reasonable | 2007-07-19 | TOPC | ||||||||||
700 | Earth surface albedo | Near Surface | 2.3 Nowcasting / Very Short-Range Forecasting | 5 % 10 % 20 % |
1 km 5 km 10 km |
24 h 3 d 10 d |
12 h 24 h 3 d |
Global | reasonable | 2013-04-15 | P. Ambrosetti | necessary to compute radiance balance at the surface for snow pack evolution forecast | |||||||||
829 | Earth surface albedo | Near Surface | 2.5 Atmospheric Climate Monitoring | 5 % | 1 % | 0.05 km 0.2 km 0.5 km |
24 h | Global | reasonable | 2019-09-30 | GCOS-200: The Global Observing System for Climate: Implementation Needs (Published 2016) | Requirements in the GCOS-200 IP, Annex A, are only specified at the goal level. |