Brief communication: Light-absorbing impurities can reduce the density of melting snow

Cryosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 991-995

  Meinander, O ^a   Kontu, A ^a   Virkkula, A ^a   Arola, A ^a   Backman, L ^a   Dagsson Waldhauserova P ^b,c   Jarvinen O ^d   Manninen, T ^a   Svensson, J ^a   De Leeuw, G ^a,d   Lepparanta M ^d  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; BLACK CARBON; CLIMATE EFFECT; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT;

EID: 84901469126     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-8-991-2014     Document Type: Article

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