Contrasting the main processes for snow albedo reduction in High Mountain Asia and Colorado.


Hoi Ga Veronica Chan1,2, Paul A Ginoux3, Sarah B Kapnick1, Sergey Malyshev4 and Elena Shevliakova5, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (3)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, United States