Implementation and evaluation of prognostic representations of the optical diameter of snow in the SURFEX/ISBA-Crocus detailed snowpack model

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Carmagnola, C. M., Morin, S., Lafaysse, M., Domine, F., Lesaffre, B., Lejeune, Y., Picard, G., Arnaud, L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2014
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Greenland; Summit Camp; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-8-417-2014; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00020402; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00020357/tc-8-417-2014.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/8/417/2014/tc-8-417-2014.pdf

In the SURFEX/ISBA-Crocus multi-layer snowpack model, the snow microstructure has up to now been characterised by the grain size and by semi-empirical shape variables which cannot be measured easily in the field or linked to other relevant snow properties. In this work we introduce a new formulation...