Spectral Characterization, Radiative Forcing, and Pigment Content of Coastal Antarctic Snow Algae: Approaches to Spectrally Discriminate Red and Green Communities and Their Impact on Snowmelt

• Main Authors: Khan, Alia L., Dierssen, Heidi, Scambos, Ted, Höfer, Juan, Cordero, Raul R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Palmer Station; Palmer-Station; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-170; https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2020-170/

Here, we present radiative forcing (RF) estimates by snow algae in the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) region from multi-year measurements of solar radiation and ground-based hyperspectral characterization of red and green snow algae collected during a brief field expedition in austral summer 2018. Our ana...