The reflecting power of the earth is primarily dictated by the proportion of cloud and snow cover.

地球的反射率主要是由云和雪覆盖的部分决定的。

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The Alps expect heavy cloud over the weekend with light snow flurries and strong winds.

阿尔卑斯山预计周末是多云，有小阵雪和强风。

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Regardless of the Moscow authorities' final decision on snow cloud seeding, Russia remains one of the few nations where weather control is more than using anti-hail cannons and battling droughts.

无论莫斯科当局是否就干预下雪云层做出最后的决定，俄罗斯仍然是为数不多的国家之一，他们对付冰雹和干旱使用的手段远远不止加农炮。

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Not only did Microsoft have to take and process a lot of images, it also had to correct for cloud cover, snow, and other impediments to a ground view.

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But walking in Bolivia is also an experience in diversity: one day you can be in snow-covered mountains and the next you might descend through moss-strewn cloud forests to jungle lowlands.

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The spruce and pine trees all around are weighed down, more snow than tree, and the steep mountainside that falls away beneath the farm is hidden behind cloud.

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