Evaluating biases in simulated land surface albedo .
1 Introduction. Land surface albedo quantifies the amount of incident radiation that is reflected upward near the ground and directly determines the proportion of absorbed net radiation, which is balanced by the energy that is transferred or stored by the related atmospheric (e.g., turbulent heat transfer), hydrological (e.g., snowmelt), and ecological (e.g., photosynthesis) processes [Barry ...