Towards predicting temporal changes of the spectral signature of snow in visible and near-infrared wavelengths
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by International Glaciological Society in Annals of Glaciology
- Vol. 17, 143-148
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s026030550001274x
Abstract
This study links two models, one that simulates changes in snow microstructure and one that recovers microstructure properties from measurements of snow reflectance. An energy and mass transfer model, SNTHERM.89, was used to calculate snow grain growth. Grain-sizes from the model and measurements of grain bond areas provided estimates of the surface-to-volume ratio of the bulk snow, which were transformed to geometrically-equivalent sphere sizes. An inversion technique based on a discrete-ordinate model of the directional reflectance recovered optically-equivalent sphere sizes from reflectance measurements at 1.075 μm. The predictions of equivalent sphere sizes from the snow model and the recovered optical sphere sizes from the inversion method were compared with stereological measurements from snow sections. The geometrically-equivalent and optically-equivalent grain-sizes showed good agreement with each other and with stereological measurements from snow a few days old. The predictions of the reflectance inversion method also compared favorably with geometrically-equivalent grain-sizes measured from a melt-freeze surface crust. This investigation showed the potential for fully coupling snow property simulations with models to predict the spectral reflectance of snow.Keywords
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