The Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator coupled model (ACCESS-
CM) has been developed at the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research …

A new algorithm to retrieve characteristics (albedo and melt pond fraction) of summer ice in
the Arctic from optical satellite data is described. In contrast to other algorithms this algorithm …

White ice (ice with a highly scattering granular layer on top of its surface) and snow-covered
ice occupy a large part of the sea ice area in the Arctic, the former in summer, the latter in the …

Melt ponds occupy a large part of the Arctic sea ice in summer and strongly affect the
radiative budget of the atmosphere–ice–ocean system. In this study, the melt pond …

We have measured spectral albedo, as well as ancillary parameters, of seasonal European
Arctic snow at Sodankylä, Finland (67° 22'N, 26° 39'E). The springtime intensive melt period …

The sensitivity of the global sea-ice distribution in the Australian Climate Ocean Model
(AusCOM) to a range of parameter values related to sea-ice physics was explored. The sea …

We present the results of a wide-ranging sea ice sensitivity study, performed with a fully-
coupled global atmosphere–ice-ocean climate model. We investigate sensitivity to a …

The surface spectral albedo was measured over coastal landfast sea ice in Prydz Bay (off
Zhongshan Station), East Antarctica from 5 October to 26 November of 2016. The mean …

Land surface hemispherical albedos of several targets have been resolved using the
bidirectional reflectance factor (BRF) library of the Finnish Geodetic Institute (FGI). The …

Seasonal snow covers large parts of the northern hemisphere annually. It can change the
albedo of the surfaces from dark to bright overnight (and back), causing significant climate …