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Wang Lin1, Wang Feiteng2, Du Zhencai3
1Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science and Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, China.
Abstract:
Glacier albedo controls surface energy balance and mass balance but remains poorly observed in remote sub-Antarctic regions. We present a glacier albedo dataset for Heard Island (53°06'S, 73°31'E) derived from NASA VIIRS VNP43 BRDF/albedo parameters for January 2012 to May 2024. The dataset includes a glacier-wide area-mean time series (4,466 daily albedo records) and annual albedo rasters at 375-500 m resolution. White-sky albedo (WSA) was computed from BRDF parameters with quality filtering (mandatory quality ≤ 1). Processing used Google Earth Engine with glacier masking and interior buffering (1 pixel, 375 m). Temporal data availability is 98.9%; spatial coverage is 44.04% of the glacier area due to cloud cover. The dataset is suitable for glacier surface energy balance studies, trend analysis, and integration with climate reanalysis. Data are provided in CSV and GeoTIFF formats with accompanying quality metadata.
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