Determination of the macroscopic optical properties of snow based on exact morphology and direct pore-level heat transfer modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Haussener, Sophia ^a   Gergely, Mathias ^b,c   Schneebeli, Martin ^b   Steinfeld, Aldo ^d,e  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE; HEAT TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; POROSITY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RAY TRACING; SNOW;

EID: 84864591345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JF002332     Document Type: Article

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