A module to convert spectral to narrowband snow albedo for use in climate models: SNOWBAL v1.2

van Dalum, Christiaan T.; van de Berg, Willem Jan; Libois, Quentin; Picard, Ghislain; van den Broeke, Michiel R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-5157-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-5157-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-5157-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 12

Model description paper

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11 Dec 2019

Model description paper |

| 11 Dec 2019

A module to convert spectral to narrowband snow albedo for use in climate models: SNOWBAL v1.2

Christiaan T. van Dalum, Willem Jan van de Berg, Quentin Libois, Ghislain Picard, and Michiel R. van den Broeke

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-5157-2019-supplement

Data sets

RACMO2.3p2 South Greenland data set, 2007 C. T. van Dalum and W. J. van de Berg https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1468647

Short summary

Climate models are often limited to relatively simple snow albedo schemes. Therefore, we have developed the SNOWBAL module to couple a climate model with a physically based wavelength dependent snow albedo model. Using SNOWBAL v1.2 to couple the snow albedo model TARTES with the regional climate model RACMO2 indicates a potential performance gain for the Greenland ice sheet.