Evaluation of the albedo parameterization of the Canadian Lake Ice Model and MODIS albedo products during the ice cover season

• Main Author: Svacina, Nicolas, Andreas
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Lake ice; snow; albedo; lake ice model; MODIS; Arctic; Back Bay; Great Slave Lake; Malcolm Ramsay Lake; Northwest Territories; Ramsay; Yellowknife; Churchill; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7643

Snow and lake ice have very high albedos compared to other surfaces found in nature. Surface albedo is an important component of the surface energy budget especially when albedos are high since albedo governs how much shortwave radiation is absorbed or reflected at a surface. In particular, snow and...