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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4241-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-4241-2021
Research article
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07 Sep 2021
Research article |  | 07 Sep 2021

Snow model comparison to simulate snow depth evolution and sublimation at point scale in the semi-arid Andes of Chile

Annelies Voordendag, Marion Réveillet, Shelley MacDonell, and Stef Lhermitte

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The sensitivity of two snow models (SNOWPACK and SnowModel) to various parameterizations and atmospheric forcing biases is assessed in the semi-arid Andes of Chile in winter 2017. Models show that sublimation is a main driver of ablation and that its relative contribution to total ablation is highly sensitive to the selected albedo parameterization and snow roughness length. The forcing and parameterizations are more important than the model choice, despite differences in physical complexity.
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