Physically based snow albedo model for calculating broadband albedos and the solar heating profile in snowpack for general circulation models

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Aoki, Teruo ^a   Kuchiki, Katsuyuki ^a   Niwano, Masashi ^a   Kodama, Yuji ^b   Hosaka, Masahiro ^a   Tanaka, Taichu ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST; HEATING; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; TABLE LOOKUP;

BLACK CARBON; BROAD-BAND SPECTRUM; BROADBAND SPECTRA; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HOKKAIDO; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LAYER STRUCTURES; LOOK UP TABLE; MINERAL DUST; PHYSICALLY BASED; RADIATION BUDGET MEASUREMENTS; RADIATIVE PARAMETERS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SNOW GRAIN SIZE; SNOW IMPURITY; SNOW LAYER; SNOW MODELS; SOLAR ILLUMINATION; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; SUB-BANDS; TWO LAYERS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

SNOW;

ALBEDO; BLACK CARBON; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GRAIN SIZE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOW; SNOWPACK; SOLAR RADIATION;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; SAPPORO;

EID: 79958804435     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015507     Document Type: Article

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