Working Group of the Arctic Council
Figure 5.7 Shortwave albedo, transmittance, and absorption of Arctic first-year ice and multi-year ice. The photographs show representative samples of first-year and multi-year ice. The solid line and dashed lines denote the relative freeboard for first-year and multi-year ice. White arrows show results from white ice and blue arrows are for melt ponds. The total arrows show total albedo and transmittance assuming pond fractions of 23% (multi-year ice) and 42% (first-year ice). The shading in the arrows denotes the relative contributions of white ice and melt ponds. Adapted from Nicolaus et al. (2012).
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Publication:
Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) 2017
Page number:
115
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Schematic
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Figure 5.7 Shortwave albedo, transmittance, and absorption of Arctic first-year ice and multi-year ice. The photographs show representative samples of first-year and multi-year ice. The solid line and dashed lines denote the relative freeboard for first-year and multi-year ice. White arrows show results from white ice and blue arrows are for melt ponds. The total arrows show total albedo and transmittance assuming pond fractions of 23% (multi-year ice) and 42% (first-year ice). The shading in the arrows denotes the relative contributions of white ice and melt ponds. Adapted from Nicolaus et al. (2012).
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Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
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