Soot-doped natural snow and its albedo - Results from field experiments

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 21, Issue , 2016, Pages 481-503

  Svensson, Jonas ^a   Virkkula, Aki ^a,b,c   Meinander, Outi ^a   Kivekäs, Niku ^a,d   Hannula, Henna Reetta ^a   Järvinen, Onni ^c   Peltoniemi, Jouni I ^c,e   Gritsevich, Maria ^c,e,f   Heikkilä, Anu ^a   Kontu, Anna ^a   Neitola, Kimmo ^a   Brus, David ^a   Dagsson Waldhauserova, Pavla ^g,h,i   Anttila, Kati ^a,e   Vehkamäki, Marko ^c   Hienola, Anca ^a   de Leeuw, Gerrit ^a,c   Lihavainen, Heikki ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

ⁱ CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

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