A new approach to estimating the albedo for snow-covered surfaces in the satellite UV method

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dc.contributor.authorArola, A.
dc.contributor.authorKaurola, J.
dc.contributor.authorKoskinen, L.
dc.contributor.authorTanskanen, A.
dc.contributor.authorTikkanen, T.
dc.contributor.authorTaalas, P.
dc.contributor.authorHerman, Jay
dc.contributor.authorKrotkov, Nickolay
dc.contributor.authorFioletov, V.
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-11T21:30:50Z
dc.date.available2023-07-11T21:30:50Z
dc.date.issued2003-09-04
dc.description.abstractThis paper describes a new method for estimating snow albedo for satellite retrieval of surface UV irradiance and daily UV doses over snow-covered terrains. The method is based on combining satellite and meteorological analysis data. The satellite data exploited in this work are the measured reflectivities of the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer/Nimbus 7 instrument that coincides with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ERA-15 reanalyzed meteorological data. We compared satellite-retrieved UV daily doses to the ground-based measurements of two Finnish and five Canadian sites. The comparison clearly showed that the new snow albedo approach improves the accuracy of the satellite-retrieved UV doses.en
dc.description.urihttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2003JD003492en
dc.format.extent5 pagesen
dc.genrejournal articlesen
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2qc9a-s9ls
dc.identifier.citationArola, A., Kaurola, J., Koskinen, L., Tanskanen, A., Tikkanen, T., Taalas, P., Herman, J. R., Krotkov, N., and Fioletov, V. (2003), A new approach to estimating the albedo for snow-covered surfaces in the satellite UV method, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4531, doi:10.1029/2003JD003492, D17.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1029/2003JD003492
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/28599
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAGUen
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dc.titleA new approach to estimating the albedo for snow-covered surfaces in the satellite UV methoden
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dcterms.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9146-1632en
dcterms.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6170-6750en

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