Simulation of snow albedo and solar irradiance profile with the Two-streAm Radiative TransfEr in Snow (TARTES) v2.0 model

Picard, Ghislain; Libois, Quentin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8927-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8927-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8927-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 24

Model description paper

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19 Dec 2024

Model description paper |

| 19 Dec 2024

Simulation of snow albedo and solar irradiance profile with the Two-streAm Radiative TransfEr in Snow (TARTES) v2.0 model

Ghislain Picard and Quentin Libois

Data sets

ghislainp/tartes: v2.0 G. Picard and Q. Libois https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13950598

Interactive computing environment

Snowtartes web application Ghislain Picard https://snow.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/snowtartes/

Short summary

The Two-streAm Radiative TransfEr in Snow (TARTES) is a radiative transfer model to compute snow albedo in the solar domain and the profiles of light and energy absorption in a multi-layered snowpack whose physical properties are user defined. It uniquely considers snow grain shape flexibly, based on recent insights showing that snow does not behave as a collection of ice spheres but instead as a random medium. TARTES is user-friendly yet performs comparably to more complex models.