A multilayer physically based snowpack model simulating direct and indirect radiative impacts of light-absorbing impurities in snow

Cryosphere

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 2633-2653

  Tuzet, Francois ^a,b   Dumont, Marie ^a   Lafaysse, Matthieu ^a   Picard, Ghislain ^b   Arnaud, Laurent ^b   Voisin, Didier ^b   Lejeune, Yves ^a   Charrois, Luc ^a   Nabat, Pierre ^a   Morin, Samuel ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACCELERATION; ALBEDO; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MELTWATER; MICROSTRUCTURE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SNOWPACK; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

ALPS; FRANCE;

CROCUS;

EID: 85029784869     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-11-2633-2017     Document Type: Article

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