Impact of dust deposition on the albedo of Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland

Cryosphere

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 741-754

  Wittmann, Monika ^a   Zwaaftink, Christine Dorothea Groot ^b   Schmidt, Louise Steffensen ^a   Gumundsson, Sverrir ^a,c   Pálsson, Finnur ^a   Arnalds, Olafur ^d   Björnsson, Helgi ^a   Thorsteinsson, Throstur ^a   Stohl, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c Institute of Technology   (Iceland)

^d AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CLIMATE MODELING; DUST; ENERGY BALANCE; ICE CAP; RADIATIVE FORCING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SNOWMELT; SURFACE ENERGY;

ICELAND; VATNAJOKULL;

EID: 85016279691     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-11-741-2017     Document Type: Article

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