I'm trying to find some data on ocean albedo with/without phytoplankton blooms. This is in order to assess whether the albedo impact of Ocean Iron Fertilization is likely to be significant on the Earth's radiation budget.
The current data sources I have suffer from a couple of issues. 1. Uncalibrated albedo - Many photos of blooms are available online, but these don't have an absolute brightness scale. I.E. pure white on the photo doesn't constitute 100% reflectivity. Accordingly, it's little better than guesswork to determine what the actual albedo is from this source. 2. Blooms not distinguished - I've seen accurately measured albedo ranges, but these don't specifically attempt to distinguish between bloom and non-bloom conditions. Accordingly, there's no way to determine from this data what the difference is when a bloom is present. So I'm stuck. Does anyone have albedo data, or know where I could get it from? Ideally, I suppose this would be from an OIF ship, but it strikes me as likely that other people will have gathered data in the course of unrelated research. I'm really keen to run the numbers on this, but without this data I'm not able to proceed. Any ideas/help/sources/advice/datasets gratefully received . Thanks A -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
