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Albedo is a key parameter in climatic research and depends on environmental and climatic factors. Modeling these factors greatly contributes to understanding environmental variations. To this end, the data of Land Surface Albedo, Land Surface Temperature (LST), Vegetation, Snow, Elevation, Slope, and Aspect of the MODIS sensor from 1/1/2001 to 30/12/2021 with a 1000-m spatial resolution were used. After pre-processing, monthly, seasonal, and annual albedo modeling was performed using multiple linear regression (MLR) in the highlands of Iran. The results of monthly modeling revealed the salient direct role of snow on the albedo of Iran's highlands in all months, except for July, August, and September. In these months, due to the lack of snow coverage and the fruiting of agricultural lands and gardens, the inverse role of vegetation on albedo variations is determining. Seasonal examinations also showed that snow plays a significant role on the albedo of Iran's highlands in winter, spring, and fall; however, vegetation has a determining role in the summer. The annual results indicated that snow, vegetation, elevation, slope, LST, and aspect, respectively, are the factors affecting albedo in the highlands of Iran. Furthermore, the role of snow, LST, and aspect is positive, while the role of vegetation, elevation, and slope is negative on albedo.
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The Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (JASTP) is an international journal concerned with the inter-disciplinary science of the Earth''s atmospheric and space environment, especially the highly varied and highly variable physical phenomena that occur in this natural laboratory and the processes that couple them.
The journal covers the physical processes operating in the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, the Sun, interplanetary medium, and heliosphere. Phenomena occurring in other "spheres", solar influences on climate, and supporting laboratory measurements are also considered. The journal deals especially with the coupling between the different regions.
Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other energetic events on the Sun create interesting and important perturbations in the near-Earth space environment. The physics of such "space weather" is central to the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics and the journal welcomes papers that lead in the direction of a predictive understanding of the coupled system. Regarding the upper atmosphere, the subjects of aeronomy, geomagnetism and geoelectricity, auroral phenomena, radio wave propagation, and plasma instabilities, are examples within the broad field of solar-terrestrial physics which emphasise the energy exchange between the solar wind, the magnetospheric and ionospheric plasmas, and the neutral gas. In the lower atmosphere, topics covered range from mesoscale to global scale dynamics, to atmospheric electricity, lightning and its effects, and to anthropogenic changes.