Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), according to a definition on the Mayo Clinic website, is the unexplained death, usually during sleep, of a seemingly healthy baby less than a year old.. The cause is still unknown, but it does not appear to be suffocation, according to the SIDS Network.
Albedo (/Ã¦lËbiËdoÊ/) is a measure for reflectance or optical brightness (Latin albedo, whiteness). It is dimensionless and measured on a scale from zero (corresponding to a black body that absorbs all incident radiation) to one (corresponding to a white body that reflects all incident radiation).
Sea ice has a much higher albedo compared to other earth surfaces, such as the surrounding ocean. A typical ocean albedo is approximately 0.06, while bare sea ice varies from approximately 0.5 to 0.7. This means that the ocean reflects only 6 percent of the incoming solar radiation and absorbs the rest, while sea ice reflects 50 to 70 percent of the incoming energy.