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Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2087-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2087-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
Research article
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29 Jun 2020
Research article |  | 29 Jun 2020

Physically based model of the contribution of red snow algal cells to temporal changes in albedo in northwest Greenland

Yukihiko Onuma, Nozomu Takeuchi, Sota Tanaka, Naoko Nagatsuka, Masashi Niwano, and Teruo Aoki

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Surface snow albedo is substantially reduced by organic impurities, such as microbes that live in the snow. We present the temporal changes of surface albedo, snow grain size, and inorganic and organic impurities observed on a snowpack in northwest Greenland during summer and our attempt to reproduce the changes in albedo with a physically based snow albedo model coupled with a snow algae model. To our knowledge, this is the first report proposing such a coupled albedo model in Greenland.
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