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Brief communication: Improving lake ice modeling in ORCHIDEE-FLake model using MODIS albedo data
Zacharie Titus
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France
present address: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, IPSL, Sorbonne Université, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, ENS, Palaiseau, 91120, France
Amélie Cuynet
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France
Elodie Salmon
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France
Catherine Ottlé
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-Université Paris-Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91190, France
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The representation of lake ice dynamics is key to model water–atmosphere energy and mass transfers in cold environments. The use of albedo satellite products to constrain the modeling of ice coverage appears to be very suitable and valuable. In this work, we show how the modeling of lake albedo and ice phenology in the land surface model ORCHIDEE was improved by accounting for fractional ice cover calibrated against lake surface albedo data.
The representation of lake ice dynamics is key to model water–atmosphere energy and mass...
