Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
GMD
Articles | Volume 12, issue 12
Articles | Volume 12, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-5157-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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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
 | 
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

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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.
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