Manuscript # 2014GL061671
Global albedo change and radiative cooling from anthropogenic land-cover change, 1700
to 2005 based on MODIS, land-use harmonization, radiative kernels and reanalysis
Bardan Ghimire1,2, Christopher A Williams1, Jeffrey Masek3, Feng Gao4, Zhuosen
Wang5, Crystal Schaaf5, Tao He6
1
Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States.
Now at: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States.
3
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States.
4
USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States.
5
University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, United States.
6
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States.
2
Supplementary information includes additional tables and figures supporting the main
manuscript.
Supplemental_InformationA.docx contains estimates of historical land-cover change
from 1700 to 2005 and the associated albedo change and radiative forcing estimates.
Supplemental_InformationB.docx contains estimates of regional variation in albedo by
land-cover type.