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Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3431-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-3431-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
Research article
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01 Sep 2022
Research article |  | 01 Sep 2022

Metamorphism of snow on Arctic sea ice during the melt season: impact on spectral albedo and radiative fluxes through snow

Gauthier Vérin, Florent Domine, Marcel Babin, Ghislain Picard, and Laurent Arnaud

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Snow physical properties on Arctic sea ice are monitored during the melt season. As snow grains grow, and the snowpack thickness is reduced, the surface albedo decreases. The extra absorbed energy accelerates melting. Radiative transfer modeling shows that more radiation is then transmitted to the snow–sea-ice interface. A sharp increase in transmitted radiation takes place when the snowpack thins significantly, and this coincides with the initiation of the phytoplankton bloom in the seawater.
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