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| Titel |
The role of radiation penetration in the energy budget of the snowpack at Summit, Greenland |
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P. Kuipers Munneke, M. R. Broeke, C. H. Reijmer, M. M. Helsen, W. Boot, M. Schneebeli, K. Steffen |
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Englisch
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1994-0416
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In: The Cryosphere ; 3, no. 2 ; Nr. 3, no. 2 (2009-07-03), S.155-165 |
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250000934
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/tc-3-155-2009.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Measurements of the summer surface energy balance at Summit, Greenland, are
presented (8 June–20 July 2007). These measurements serve as input to an
energy balance model that searches for a surface temperature for which
closure of all energy terms is achieved. A good agreement between observed
and modelled surface temperatures was found, with an average difference of
0.45°C and an RMSE of 0.85°C. It turns out that penetration
of shortwave radiation into the snowpack plays a small but important role in
correctly simulating snow temperatures. After 42 days, snow temperatures in
the first meter are 3.6–4.0°C higher compared to a model simulation
without radiation penetration. Sensitivity experiments show that these
results cannot be reproduced by tuning the heat conduction process alone, by
varying snow density or snow diffusivity. We compared the two-stream
radiation penetration calculations with a sophisticated radiative transfer
model and discuss the differences. The average diurnal cycle shows that net
shortwave radiation is the largest energy source (diurnal average of +61 W m−2),
net longwave radiation the largest energy sink
(−42 W m−2). On average, subsurface heat flux, sensible and latent
heat fluxes are the remaining, small heat sinks (−5, −5 and
−7 W m−2, respectively), although these are more important on a
subdaily timescale. |
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