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Articles | Volume 18, issue 21
Articles | Volume 18, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-5851-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-5851-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 21
Research article
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03 Nov 2021
Research article |  | 03 Nov 2021

On the influence of erect shrubs on the irradiance profile in snow

Maria Belke-Brea, Florent Domine, Ghislain Picard, Mathieu Barrere, and Laurent Arnaud

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Expanding shrubs in the Arctic change snowpacks into a mix of snow, impurities and buried branches. Snow is a translucent medium into which light penetrates and gets partly absorbed by branches or impurities. Measurements of light attenuation in snow in Northern Quebec, Canada, showed (1) black-carbon-dominated light attenuation in snowpacks without shrubs and (2) buried branches influence radiation attenuation in snow locally, leading to melting and pockets of large crystals close to branches.
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