ALBEDO MEASUREMENTS OF AN ARCTIC ICE COVER FROM HIGH TOWERS

• Main Author: Langleben,M. P.
• Other Authors: MCGILL UNIV MONTREAL (QUEBEC) DEPT OF PHYSICS
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1967
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*ARCTIC REGIONS; ICE); (*ICE; ALBEDO); RADIOMETERS; TOWERS; SURFACES; MELTING; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Tanquary Fiord; albedo; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0699288; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0699288

Radiometers, suspended at a height of 15 m between two towers anchored to the bottom of the ice cover, have been used to measure the average or integrated albedo of the surface. The work was carried out in May 1967 at Tanquary Fiord, Ellesmere Island during the period when the surface of the ice cov...