MODIS Black-Sky Albedo Climatology (2013-2022)

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This dataset contains a climatological average of Earth's surface black-sky albedo, constructed by averaging the MODIS Surface Reflectance dataset MCD43D (version 6.1) over a period of ten years (from 2013 to 2022). In particular, we used the products MCD43D42 to MCD43D48, corresponding to seven MODIS spectral bands in the visible and the near-infrared. The dataset contains the climatological albedo maps for all seven spectral bands, as well as the origin of every pixel for each band. The dataset consists of 365 files, one for each day of the year, with a spatial resolution of 30 arc seconds in latitude and longitude. The details of the climatological average are discussed in the paper "HAMSTER: Hyperspectral Albedo Maps dataset with high Spatial and TEmporal Resolution" (Roccetti et al., 2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-167).

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