Landscape scale surface albedo in IdahoMontana from 2000

Landscape scale surface albedo in Idaho/Montana from 2000 -2010 MCD 43 A products

I. Process chain 1. Target period for the statistics: DOY (209 -249) (i. e. August -early Sep) 2. Target region: P 41 R 28 (same with the investigation using our temporal Landsat albedo) 3. Visually selected the most-clear day in late August for each year during 2000 -2012 MCD 43 A 3. 2000249. Albedo. bin MCD 43 A 3. 2001241. Albedo. bin MCD 43 A 3. 2002241. Albedo. bin MCD 43 A 3. 2003233. Albedo. bin MCD 43 A 3. 2004241. Albedo. bin MCD 43 A 3. 2005233. Albedo. bin MCD 43 A 3. 2006241. Albedo. bin MCD 43 A 3. 2007241. Albedo. bin MCD 43 A 3. 2008241. Albedo. bin MCD 43 A 3. 2009241. Albedo. bin MCD 43 A 3. 2010233. Albedo. bin MCD 43 A 2. 2000249. bin MCD 43 A 2. 2001241. bin MCD 43 A 2. 2002241. bin MCD 43 A 2. 2003233. bin MCD 43 A 2. 2004241. bin MCD 43 A 2. 2005233. bin MCD 43 A 2. 2006241. bin MCD 43 A 2. 2007241. bin MCD 43 A 2. 2008241. bin MCD 43 A 2. 2009241. bin MCD 43 A 2. 2010233. bin 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 4. Mosaic (since p 41 r 28 cover two corners of h 10 v 04 and h 09 v 04), Reprojection (SIN to UTM) and Resample (469. 56 m to 30 m using NN) Via MODIS Tools-MRT plus script 5. Make the mask of clear region over the 11 -year Landsat-scale-like MCD 43 A 3 and MCD 43 A 2 data track • Mask 1: Only In terms of MCD 43 A 2 (QA=0 or 1) and MCD 43 A 3 ( BSA &WSA !=32767 Fill. Value) • Mask 2: Further apply the 23 -clear-day mask that used in Landsat’s landscape albedo statistics 6. Consistent trend, but a little bit lower than the generation from Landsat albedo

I. Temporal plots of Landsat-scale-like MCD 43 A Black Sky Albedo (BSA) using Mask 1

I. Temporal plots of Landsat-scale-like MCD 43 A Black Sky Albedo (BSA) using Mask 1 (Cont. )

II. Temporal plots of Landsat-scale-like MCD 43 A Albedo using Mask 2

II. Temporal plots of Landsat-scale-like MCD 43 A Albedo (WSA) along year 2010 -2011(Mask 2 cont. )

II. Temporal plots of Undisturbed Landsat-scale-like MCD 43 A BSA & WSA using Mask 2 (cont. ) 0. 22 NLCD 11 NLCD 12 NLCD 21 NLCD 22 NLCD 23 NLCD 24 NLCD 31 NLCD 42 NLCD 43 NLCD 52 NLCD 71 NLCD 82 NLCD 90 NLCD 95 Averaged landscap shortwave BSA for each undisturbed NLCD class 0. 20 0. 18 0. 16 0. 14 0. 12 0. 10 0. 08 0. 06 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Year 0. 22 NLCD 11 NLCD 12 NLCD 21 NLCD 22 NLCD 23 NLCD 24 NLCD 31 NLCD 42 NLCD 43 NLCD 52 NLCD 71 NLCD 82 NLCD 90 NLCD 95 Averaged landscap shortwave WSA for each undisturbed NLCD class 0. 20 0. 18 0. 16 0. 14 0. 12 0. 10 0. 08 0. 06 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011