Home › Entities › general › albedo

albedo

ratio of reflected radiation to incident radiation
Thing general Q101038
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

albedo ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,848 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: ratio of two quantities of the same kind[2]
  • Commons category: Albedo[3]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Albedo[4]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[5], Otto's encyclopedia[6], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[7], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[9]
  • Main Wikidata property: P4501[10]
  • Different from: Albedo 0.39[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Climate change[12], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics[14]

Why It Matters

albedo has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] albedo is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). albedo. Retrieved October 13, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/albedo
MLA “albedo.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 13 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/albedo.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_albedo_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{albedo}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/albedo}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-13}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): albedo — https://4ort.xyz/entity/albedo (retrieved 2026-10-13)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/albedo · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Mullanur · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fandom article id → space:Albedo
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Fandom article id: space:Albedo"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1vZ3c4
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/41251|batch #41251]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Albedo
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Mathematics
    Subclass of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 27997, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.