Reflective properties of white sea ice and snow

Malinka, Aleksey; Zege, Eleonora; Heygster, Georg; Istomina, Larysa

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2541-2016

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2541-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2541-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 6

Research article

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02 Nov 2016

Research article |

| 02 Nov 2016

Reflective properties of white sea ice and snow

Aleksey Malinka, Eleonora Zege, Georg Heygster, and Larysa Istomina

Data sets

Surface spectral albedo complementary to ROV transmittance measurements at 6 ice stations during POLARSTERN cruise ARK XXVII/3 (IceArc) in 2012 L. Istomina, M. Nicolaus, and D. K. Perovich https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.867292

Short summary

The number of melt ponds on Arctic summer sea ice and its reflectance are required for better climate modeling and weather prediction. In order to derive these quantities from optical satellite observations, simple analytical formulas for the bidirectional reflectance factor and albedo at direct and diffuse incidence are derived from basic assumptions and verified with in situ measurements made during the expedition ARK-XXVII/3 of research vessel Polarstern in 2012.