Dear Alison I made comments on these names as well on Tuesday. Concerning your first point, I agree that it's good to involve multiplicity of albedo names for different area types. However, I think that _assuming_X is a bit different from an area-type. An area of a certain type (bare soil, trees, grass etc.) has a particular surface albedo, which is an observable or actual quantity. The surface_area_assuming_no/deep_snow applies to the *same* area type, but under different conditions, which aren't the actual observable ones.
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