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Albedo Is the Tendency of a Surface to Reflect Solar

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Albedo is the tendency of a surface to reflect solar energy instead of absorbing it,and snow and ice have a much higher albedo than water.Over the last several decades the amount of the Arctic Ocean that has ice on it has been decreasing,thereby exposing more and more of the Arctic Ocean to the atmosphere each summer.Would this cause the total absorption of heat in the Arctic to increase or decrease?


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