A module to convert spectral to narrowband snow albedo for use in climate models: SNOWBAL v1.2

• Published in: Geoscientific Model Development
• Main Authors: Dalum, Christiaan T., Berg, Willem Jan, Libois, Quentin, Picard, Ghislain, Broeke, Michiel R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Gardner; Greenland; Kuipers; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-5157-2019; https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/12/5157/2019/

Snow albedo schemes in regional climate models often lack a sophisticated radiation penetration scheme and generally compute only a broadband albedo. Here, we present the Spectral-to-NarrOWBand ALbedo module (SNOWBAL, version 1.2) to couple effectively a spectral albedo model with a narrowband radia...