HiRSvaC500-alpha (High Resolution Svalbard Climatology, 500 m, glacier albedo), links to data files in NetCDF format

• Main Authors: Möller, Marco, Möller, Rebecca
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: Date/time end; Date/time start; File format; File name; File size; MULT; Multiple investigations; Svalbard; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Arctic; albedo; Arctic Archipelago; glacier
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.871501; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.871501

Albedo is an important quantity for determining the energy balance of snow and ice surfaces and thus also for the mass balance of glaciers. It is especially important in polar regions where shortwave radiation fluxes typically provide most of the energy input to a glacier. In order to use albedo dat...