Impact of snow grain shape and black carbon-snow internal mixing on snow optical properties: Parameterizations for climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2017, Pages 10019-10036

  He, Cenlin ^a,b   Takano, Yoshi ^a   Liou, Kuo Nan ^a   Yang, Ping ^c   Li, Qinbin ^a   Chen, Fei ^b  

^a Los Angeles   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Albedo; Optical properties; Parameterization; Radiative transfer; Snow

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ASPECT RATIO; CLIMATE MODELS; FORWARD SCATTERING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MIXING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SURFACE WAVES;

ALBEDO; ASYMMETRY FACTOR; ENHANCEMENT RATIOS; NONSPHERICAL GRAINS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER PROCESS; SHAPE AND SIZE EFFECTS; SINGLE SCATTERING; SINGLE SCATTERING PROPERTIES;

SNOW;

AEROSOL; ALBEDO; BLACK CARBON; CLIMATE MODELING; GRAIN SIZE; MIXING; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOW;

EID: 85036667086     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0300.1     Document Type: Article

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