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Enhanced light absorption and reduced snow albedo due to internally mixed mineral dust in grains of snow
Tenglong Shi
Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of
Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou
730000, China
Jiecan Cui
Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of
Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou
730000, China
Yang Chen
Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of
Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou
730000, China
Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of
Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou
730000, China
Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of
Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou
730000, China
Xuanye Xu
College of Atmospheric Sciences, Chengdu University of Information
Technology, Chengdu 610225, China
Quanliang Chen
College of Atmospheric Sciences, Chengdu University of Information
Technology, Chengdu 610225, China
Xuelei Zhang
Key laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute
of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102,
China
Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of
Education, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou
730000, China
Institute of Surface-Earth System Science, Tianjin University, Tianjin
300072, China
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We assess the effect of dust external and internal mixing with snow grains on the absorption coefficient and albedo of snowpack. The results suggest that dust–snow internal mixing strongly enhances snow absorption coefficient and albedo reduction relative to external mixing. Meanwhile, the possible non-uniform distribution of dust in snow grains may lead to significantly different values of absorption coefficient and albedo of snowpack in the visible spectral range.
We assess the effect of dust external and internal mixing with snow grains on the absorption...
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