Airborne Measurements of Surface Albedo and Leaf Area Index of Snow-Covered Boreal Forest

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
• Main Authors: Manninen, Terhikki, Roujean, Jean-Louis, Hautecoeur, Olivier, Riihelä, Aku, Lahtinen, Panu, Jääskeläinen, Emmihenna, Siljamo, Niilo, Anttila, Kati, Sukuvaara, Timo, Korhonen, Lauri
• Other Authors: Centre d'études spatiales de la biosphère (CESBIO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Météo-France
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: albedo; snow; boreal forest; airborne; leaf area index; satellite; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Paras; Subarctic; Lapland
• Online Access: https://insu.hal.science/insu-03668295; https://insu.hal.science/insu-03668295/document; https://insu.hal.science/insu-03668295/file/JGR%20Atmospheres%20-%202021%20-%20Manninen%20-%20Airborne%20Measurements%20of%20Surface%20Albedo%20and%20Leaf%20Area%20Index%20of%20Snow_E2_80_90Covered%20Boreal.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035376

International audience Helicopter based simultaneous measurements of broadband surface albedo and the effective leaf area index (LAI eff ) were carried out in subarctic area of Finnish Lapland in spring 2008, 2009, and 2010 under varying illumination and snow cover conditions. Vertical profile measu...