a. Using the legend, determine the value (number and unit) for the darkest blue/dark-blue/almost-black color. The darkest blue/black is 0 w/m2. It means 0 watts per square meter.

b. Where is this color located in the image? The darker color is located at the north of the arctic.

c. Determine the value for the lightest yellow color. Where is this located in the image? The lightest yellow color (Almost white) represents 425 w/m2. It is located in the Sothern part of the map the Artic regain.

d. Can you think of a possible reason for this situation in January? They go because the sun never sets in parts of Antarctica when the earth is tilted. It’s always reflecting off the ice.

e. What do you think the image would look like in July? Why? It would be opposite. Opposite means the northern part has a higher W/M2 than the South which has almost nothing.

f. Click on the image for July to check your answer and describe what you found below: Yes it was sort of opposite. It was not white but it was green so there were some areas that were highly reflected by the sun.

g. In general, does water or land appear to have the higher reflectance? Land seems to have more reflectance. This is because the sun reflects off the trees, grass and dirt.

h. Explain why the poles seem to always show the extremes of reflectance. The poles seem to always show extreme’s because they are always facing the sun or facing away from the sun.

i. Earth’s energy balance is the difference between energy coming in (from the sun) and that leaving (through radiation to space). How does reflectance impact the energy balance? It would stay absorbed if the world was black asphalt or black mulch because it would not be reflective.

j. How does reflectance and the energy balance impact the temperature of the planet? When the reflectance increases the world will cool down.

k. Using the legend, determine the value (number and unit) for the yellow-ish/highest color. 45 degrees Celsius

l. Where is this color located in the image? Mostly in southern Africa and parts of south America and all over Australia.

m. Use another browser tab, and find a celcius-fahrenheit converter. Convert 10 degrees C to Fahrenheit. 50 degrees Fahrenheit n. Determine the value for the lightest blue-ish/almost-white-ish /lowest color.

The whitest bluest color is 25 celcius 0. Where is this located in the image?

Up in the arctic p. Can you think of a possible reason for this situation in January?

Because the northern part is tilted away from the sun. q. What do you think the image would look like in July? Why? The opposite, because the earth Is tilted to the other side.

r. Click on the image for July to check your answer and describe what you found below: It is wayyyyyy much super hotter.

s. This image is “Land Surface Temperature.”. It does not display Ocean Surface Temperature. OPEN ANOTHE BROWSER TAB (sorry to be shouting...) and visit NASA-NEO, and locate Sea Surface Temperature 2002+ (MODIS), and open January 2015.

t. Using the legend on the Sea Surface Temperature image, determine the value (number and unit) for the white-ish/lightest/highest color. That is 35 degrees Celsius which is 95 degrees

u. here is this color located in the image? Around the equator and near land.

m. Using the legend, determine the value (number and unit) for the white-ish/highest color. 100% snow cover

n. Where is this color located in the image? Northern part of America and Asia

o. Can you think of a possible reason for this situation in January? Because of the suns tilt

p. What do you think the image would look like in July? Why? It would be in africa and australia

q. Click on the image for July to check your answer and describe what you found below: It was all on the bottom half of the globe

r. Locate an image of March 2015. Compared to January... is there more snow cover, or less? Why? There is less because some of the snow has melted

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NASA NEO