Light-Absorbing Impurities in Snow: A Personal and Historical Account
The ability of light-absorbing impurities (LAI) to darken snow had been known for decades, even inspiring practical applications, but quantification of the radiative forcing awaited radiative-transfer modeling in 1980 and measurement of soot in Arctic snow in 1983-4. Climate-modeling interest in thi...
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| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Earth Science |
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| Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2018.00250/full |