Albedo reflectance and bi-hemispherical reflectance (e.g.,). These calculations are based on the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF), which describes how the reflectance of a given surface depends on the view angle of the observer and the solar angle. BDRF can facilitate translations of observations of reflectance into albedo. Earth's average surface temperature due to its albedo and the greenhouse effect is currently about 15 °C. If Earth were frozen entirely (and hence be more reflective), the average temperature of the planet would drop below −40 °C. If only the continental land masses became covered by glaciers, the mean temperature of the
Incompressible surface ∂"D". If "D" were to bound a disk inside "S" (which is always the case if "S" is incompressible, for example), then compressing "S" along "D" would result in a disjoint union of a sphere and a surface homeomorphic to "S". The resulting surface without the sphere might or might not be isotopic to "S". There is also an algebraic version of incompressibility. Suppose formula_4 is a proper embedding of a compact surface in a 3-manifold. Then "S" is "π"-injective (or algebraically incompressible) if the induced map on fundamental groups is injective. In general, every "π"-injective surface is incompressible, but