Earth's Albedo

I must confess that I do not understand your question. I am afraid that I believe that, as a "student of engineering" you should have asked this question while participating in the project.

Check these guys out:

Kaufmann and de Pater and Lissauer

It depends on cloud cover, for one thing, and the angle formed by sun/earth/nanosatellite.

If the nanosatellite is on the opposite side of the earth from the sun, the albedo might as well be near zero.

I would think that accurately measuring the ratio of reflected solar flux to incident solar flux is no simple matter.

This railroaders approach would be to measure the radiated energy from the earth disk on the shadow side. The rate of radiated energy will define both the equilibrium temperature (Stefan/Boltzmann Law) and with an accurate solar constant; will allow the reflected insolation to be derived.

Would Albedo approximate (radiated energy)/(Total Solar insolation - Geologic Input)? Where energy to mass conversion through photosynthetic process being so small as to be ignored?

Gavilan

Hello FredyMig

I have attached a site with a free download for a climate text being prepared by Ray Pierrehumbert. In it you will find all the math and physics needed to answer your question. (student=work=research)

Good Luck

htpp://geosci.uchicago.edu/~rtp1/ClimateBook/ClimateVol1.pdf