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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3921-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3921-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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Research article
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20 Aug 2021
Research article |
| 20 Aug 2021
| 20 Aug 2021
Experimental and model-based investigation of the links between snow bidirectional reflectance and snow microstructure
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, CNRM, Centre d'Études de la Neige, 38000 Grenoble, France
Frederic Flin
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, CNRM, Centre d'Études de la Neige, 38000 Grenoble, France
Aleksey Malinka
Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus
Olivier Brissaud
Univ. Grenoble Alpes – CNRS, IPAG, Grenoble, France
Pascal Hagenmuller
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, CNRM, Centre d'Études de la Neige, 38000 Grenoble, France
Philippe Lapalus
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, CNRM, Centre d'Études de la Neige, 38000 Grenoble, France
Bernard Lesaffre
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, CNRM, Centre d'Études de la Neige, 38000 Grenoble, France
Anne Dufour
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, CNRM, Centre d'Études de la Neige, 38000 Grenoble, France
Neige Calonne
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, CNRM, Centre d'Études de la Neige, 38000 Grenoble, France
Sabine Rolland du Roscoat
UGA – Grenoble INP – CNRS, 3SR UMR 5521, Grenoble, France
Edward Ando
UGA – Grenoble INP – CNRS, 3SR UMR 5521, Grenoble, France
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Short summary
The role of snow microstructure in snow optical properties is only partially understood despite the importance of snow optical properties for the Earth system. We present a dataset combining bidirectional reflectance measurements and 3D images of snow. We show that the snow reflectance is adequately simulated using the distribution of the ice chord lengths in the snow microstructure and that the impact of the morphological type of snow is especially important when ice is highly absorptive.
The role of snow microstructure in snow optical properties is only partially understood despite...
