A shrub bending model to calculate the albedo of shrub-tundra

• Published in: Hydrological Processes
• Main Authors: Ménard, Cécile B., Essery, Richard, Pomeroy, John, Marsh, Philip, Clark, Douglas B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Meteorology and Climatology; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Canada; Valley Creek; Trail Valley Creek; Tundra
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20308/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20308/1/N020308PP.pdf; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.9582/abstract

At high latitudes, the albedo and energy budget of shrub-tundra landscapes is determined by the relationship between the fractional snow cover and the fraction of vegetation protruding above the snowpack. The exposed vegetation fraction is affected by the bending and/or burial of shrubs in winter an...