Estimating ice albedo from fine debris cover quantified by a semi-automatic method: the case study of Forni Glacier, Italian Alps

Azzoni, Roberto Sergio; Senese, Antonella; Zerboni, Andrea; Maugeri, Maurizio; Smiraglia, Claudio; Diolaiuti, Guglielmina Adele

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-665-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-665-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-665-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

Research article

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16 Mar 2016

Research article |

| 16 Mar 2016

Estimating ice albedo from fine debris cover quantified by a semi-automatic method: the case study of Forni Glacier, Italian Alps

Roberto Sergio Azzoni, Antonella Senese, Andrea Zerboni, Maurizio Maugeri, Claudio Smiraglia, and Guglielmina Adele Diolaiuti

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RC C1711: 'Glaciology', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Sep 2014
RC C2299: 'Review of “A novel integrated method to describe dust and fine supraglacial debris and their effects on ice albedo: the case study of Forni Glacier, Italian Alps”', Allen Pope, 07 Nov 2014
AC C2583: 'Final Author Response', A. Senese, 05 Dec 2014

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In spite of quite abundant literature focusing on fine debris deposition over snow of glacier accumulation areas, less attention has been paid to the ice of the glacier melting surface. Accordingly, we developed a method for estimating ice albedo from fine debris cover quantified by a semi-automatic method. Our procedure was tested on the surface of the Forni Glacier (Italian Alps), acquiring parallel data sets of in situ measurements of ice albedo and high-resolution images.