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  2. Reflective surfaces (climate engineering) - Wikipedia

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    The albedo of several types of roofs (lower values means higher temperatures). Reflective surfaces, or ground-based albedo modification (GBAM), is a solar radiation management method of enhancing Earth's albedo (the ability to reflect the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet wavelengths of the Sun, reducing heat transfer to the surface).

  3. Albedo - Wikipedia

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    Just as fresh snow has a higher albedo than does dirty snow, the albedo of snow-covered sea ice is far higher than that of sea water. Sea water absorbs more solar radiation than would the same surface covered with reflective snow. When sea ice melts, either due to a rise in sea temperature or in response to increased solar radiation from above ...

  4. Blue ice (glacial) - Wikipedia

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    The blue color is sometimes wrongly attributed to Rayleigh scattering, which is responsible for the color of the sky. Rather, water ice is blue for the same reason that large quantities of liquid water are blue: it is a result of an overtone of an oxygen–hydrogen (O−H) bond stretch in water, which absorbs light at the red end of the visible ...

  5. Diffuse sky radiation - Wikipedia

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    The color perceived is similar to that presented by a monochromatic blue (at wavelength 474–476 nm) mixed with white light, that is, an unsaturated blue light. [5] The explanation of blue color by Lord Rayleigh in 1871 is a famous example of applying dimensional analysis to solving problems in physics.

  6. The dress - Wikipedia

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    Jaden Smith, Frankie Muniz, Demi Lovato, Mindy Kaling, and Justin Bieber saw the dress as blue and black, while Anna Kendrick, B. J. Novak, Katy Perry, Julianne Moore, and Sarah Hyland saw it as white and gold. [12] Kim Kardashian tweeted that she saw it as white and gold, while her then-husband Kanye West saw it as blue and black.

  7. What is the Kurt Angle staring meme, and where did it ... - AOL

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    Also, many of the memes pause the video halfway through and switch the color to black and white in order to make it more dramatic. Some even focus on how they feel after realizing they overslept ...

  8. Ice–albedo feedback - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of ice–albedo feedback. Ice reflects more light back into space, whereas land and water absorb more of the sunlight. Ice–albedo feedback is a climate change feedback, where a change in the area of ice caps, glaciers, and sea ice alters the albedo and surface temperature of a planet.

  9. “The Year Without a Santa Claus” Turns 50: How Heat ... - AOL

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    The Year Without a Santa Claus, a Christmas special from Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., turns 50 this December. The beloved special was adapted from the book of the same name by Phyllis ...