Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3921-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-3921-2021
Research article
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20 Aug 2021
Research article |  | 20 Aug 2021

Experimental and model-based investigation of the links between snow bidirectional reflectance and snow microstructure

Marie Dumont, Frederic Flin, Aleksey Malinka, Olivier Brissaud, Pascal Hagenmuller, Philippe Lapalus, Bernard Lesaffre, Anne Dufour, Neige Calonne, Sabine Rolland du Roscoat, and Edward Ando

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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.
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