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If the albedo of the earth is 30% and incoming solar radiation is 200 W/sq.m, wh...

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If the albedo of the earth is 30% and incoming solar radiation is 200 W/sq.m, what is the outgoing solar radiation?

For this question you can make the following assumptions:

  1. That there is no atmospheric attenuation
  2. That the incoming radiation quoted in the question is what actually arrives at the land surface to be either refelcted or absorbed.

Submit your answer in W/sq.m to the nearest integer.

Surface albedo diagram.

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