Arctic and Antarctic diurnal and seasonal variations of snow albedo from multiyear Baseline Surface Radiation Network measurements

• Main Authors: Xianwei Wang, Charles S. Zender
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Austral; Neumayer; Ny-Ålesund; Sastrugi; South Pole; albedo; Antarc*; Antarctica; Barrow; Ny Ålesund; South pole; Alaska; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.309.2718; http://dust.ess.uci.edu/ppr/ppr_WaZ11.pdf

elucidate similarities and differences in snow albedo diurnal cycles across geographic zones and to assess how diurnal changes in snow albedo affect the surface energy budget. At the seasonal scale, the daily albedo for the perennial snow at stations South Pole and Georg von Neumayer in Antarctica h...