Effect of snow grain shape on snow albedo

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 3573-3583

  Dang, Cheng ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a   Warren, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Albedo; Ice crystals; Optical properties; Physical meteorology and climatology; Radiation budgets

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ASPECT RATIO; BUDGET CONTROL; FORWARD SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR RADIATION; SPHERES;

ABSORBING PARTICLES; ALBEDO; AREA-TO-MASS RATIOS; ICE CRYSTALS; NONSPHERICAL GRAINS; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SINGLE SCATTERING PROPERTIES;

SNOW;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; CLIMATOLOGY; ICE CRYSTAL; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATION BUDGET; SNOW;

EID: 84983566864     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-15-0276.1     Document Type: Article

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