Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-741-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-741-2017
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23 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 23 Mar 2017

Impact of dust deposition on the albedo of Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland

Monika Wittmann, Christine Dorothea Groot Zwaaftink, Louise Steffensen Schmidt, Sverrir Guðmundsson, Finnur Pálsson, Olafur Arnalds, Helgi Björnsson, Throstur Thorsteinsson, and Andreas Stohl

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This work includes a study on the effects of dust deposition on the mass balance of Brúarjökull, an outlet glacier of Vatnajökull, Iceland's largest ice cap. A model was used to simulate dust deposition on the glacier, and these periods of dust were compared to albedo measurements at two weather stations on Brúarjökull to evaluate the dust impact. We determine the influence of dust events on the snow albedo and the surface energy balance.