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Montanes-Rodrig, P.; Palle, E.; Goode, P. R.; Koonin, S. E.
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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #SA53B-1175
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2005
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Description
We have analyzed spectroscopic earthshine data to determine Earth's
nightly spectral albedos covering the visible, near and middle infrared
spectral ranges. Observations in the visible were undertaken from
Palomar Observatory with the spectrograph in the Palomar 60" telescope
and with the echelle spectrograph of the InfraRed Telescope Facility
(IRTF) on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The observing runs were chosen near the
quarter moon to reduce the background glow produced by the moonshine
(bright side of the Moon). Although observations were taken on different
nights, the similarity of lunar phases and comparable cloud cover
conditions for the monitored part of the Earth's surface, allow us to
derive, for the first time, an apparent albedo of the Earth covering the
entire spectral range from 0.5 to 4.4 microns.