the Albedo Impact Revised 2

The Albedo Impact
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Abstract
Albedo effect occurs due to the reflection of sun’s energy when it lands on several surfaces. Melting of different ice blocks under certain conditions can explain this phenomenon. The impact of this phenomenon differs based on the kind of surface. It causes affects change in climate in different ports of the world.
Introduction
The Albedo effect causes climate change. Scales of measurement are from 0 – 1. Zero indicates no reflection (black surface) of sun’s energy. 1 shows that it is there (white areas). It is argued that Albedo works differently on various surfaces depending on the degree of darkness of the platforms (Bonan, 2008). To prove this assertion, an experiment is done to answer this question,” Does the albedo effect operate the same on different surfaces?”
Materials
The materials used were 4pairs of ice blocks, which are: black and blue, black and white, all of the same size, the third one with a more significant black block than the blue one, and the fourth one with a dark and translucent ice cubes. A stop watch was also present. Temperature source (sunlight)
Procedure
1.Heat the first two chunks of ice and record the time taken for each block to melt.
2. Perform the same procedure for the third and the fourth pairs of ice blocks respectively
Results
In the first set of experiment, the white block took a little more time to melt than the black one in the first pair. The results of the experiment for the second pair indicated a similar condition whereby the black chunk melted hastily than the blue one.

The black ice block melted at the same time with the blue one in the third pair. In the fourth pair, the dark chunk of ice liquefied faster than the translucent one. This is the control experiment for the entire process.
Conclusion
The overall conclusion of the above experiments is that Albedo effect operates differently on diverse surfaces (Ingram et al., 1989). Black /darker substances absorb heat more easily than the other surfaces. Just like the melting of the ice chunks was varied in similar conditions, the Albedo effect impacts the world’s zones more differently.
Discussion
The surface of the earth is a patchwork of different colors beginning from the dazzling snow, to dark oceanic places and forests. Each of these areas has a particular effect on the temperature of the earth. Ice and snow reflect most of the energy from the sun back to space. Dark seas absorb the temperatures from the sun that warms up the waters hence, keeping the earth warm. This is because they absorb 90% of the energy (Boucher and Lohmann, 1995). The warming brings about an increment in the level of water vapor. This as result regulates temperatures on earth which affects the climate of different areas (Pielke et al., 2002).
Except for the ice in the Antarctic sea which is increasing by 1%, all the other snow across the world is believed to be melting. White surfaces are decreasing and this causes a consequential reduced energy reflection into space. The earth as a result, continues warming up. This is what is called the global warming effect. When the water in the oceans increase, this implies that the darker surface will precipitate warming in the globe that causes climate change (Hansen and Nazarenko, 2004). Therefore, the Albedo effect operates differently on various surfaces and is a major factor causing climate change.

Reference
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Bonan, G. B. (2008). Forests and climate change: forcings, feedbacks, and the climate benefits of forests. science, 320(5882), 1444-1449.
Ramanathan, V., & Carmichael, G. (2008). Global and regional climate changes due to black carbon. Nature geoscience, 1(4), 221.
Hansen, J., & Nazarenko, L. (2004). Soot climate forcing via snow and ice albedos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101(2), 423-428.
Pielke, R. A., Marland, G., Betts, R. A., Chase, T. N., Eastman, J. L., Niles, J. O., & Running, S. W. (2002). The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system: relevance to climate-change policy beyond the radiative effect of greenhouse gases. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 360(1797), 1705-1719.
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