Editing Albedo (section)

===Climate and weather===
{{See also|Climate change feedback}}
[[File:20220726 Feedbacks affecting global warming and climate change - block diagram.svg|thumb|right|upright=1.5| Some effects of global warming can either enhance ([[positive feedback]]s such as the ice-albedo feedback) or inhibit ([[negative feedback]]s) warming.<ref name=NASA_IntegratedSystem>{{cite web |title=The Study of Earth as an Integrated System |url=https://climate.nasa.gov/nasa_science/science/ |website=nasa.gov |publisher=NASA |date=2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161102022200/https://climate.nasa.gov/nasa_science/science/ |archive-date=2 November 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=IPCC_AR6_SGI_FigTS.17>Fig. TS.17, ''[https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_TS.pdf Technical Summary],'' Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), Working Group I, IPCC, 2021, p. 96. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220721021347/https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_TS.pdf Archived] from the original on 21 July 2022.</ref>]]
Albedo affects [[climate]] by determining how much [[radiation]] a planet absorbs.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=av7q4N8Ib6sC&pg=PA53|title=Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather: Abs-Ero|last1=Schneider|first1=Stephen Henry|last2=Mastrandrea|first2=Michael D.|last3=Root|first3=Terry L.|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-976532-4|page=53}}</ref> The uneven heating of Earth from albedo variations between land, ice, or ocean surfaces can drive [[weather]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Albedo and Climate {{!}} Center for Science Education |url=https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/how-climate-works/albedo-and-climate |access-date=2025-02-06 |website=scied.ucar.edu}}</ref>

The response of the climate system to an initial forcing is modified by feedbacks: increased by [[Positive feedback|"self-reinforcing" or "positive" feedbacks]] and reduced by [[Negative feedback|"balancing" or "negative" feedbacks]].<ref>{{cite web |year=2013 |title=The study of Earth as an integrated system |url=https://climate.nasa.gov/nasa_science/science/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226190002/https://climate.nasa.gov/nasa_science/science/ |archive-date=26 February 2019 |series=Vitals Signs of the Planet |publisher=Earth Science Communications Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology}}</ref> The main reinforcing feedbacks are the [[Water vapour feedback|water-vapour feedback]], the [[ice–albedo feedback]], and the net effect of clouds.<ref>Arias, P.A., N. Bellouin, E. Coppola, R.G. Jones, G. Krinner, J. Marotzke, V. Naik, M.D. Palmer, G.-K. Plattner, J. Rogelj, M. Rojas, J. Sillmann, T. Storelvmo, P.W. Thorne, B. Trewin, K. Achuta Rao, B. Adhikary, R.P. Allan, K. Armour, G. Bala, R. Barimalala, S. Berger, J.G. Canadell, C. Cassou, A. Cherchi, W. Collins, W.D. Collins, S.L. Connors, S. Corti, F. Cruz, F.J. Dentener, C. Dereczynski, A. Di Luca, A. Diongue Niang, F.J. Doblas-Reyes, A. Dosio, H. Douville, F. Engelbrecht, V. Eyring, E. Fischer, P. Forster, B. Fox-Kemper, J.S. Fuglestvedt, J.C. Fyfe, et al., 2021: [https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/technical-summary/ Technical Summary]. In ''[https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]'' [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S.L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 33−144. doi: 10.1017/9781009157896.002.</ref>{{rp|58}}