Evaluation of the SMAP model calculated snow albedo at the SIGMA-A site, northwest Greenland, during the 2012 record surface melt event
Masashi Niwano1, Teruo Aoki2, Sumito Matoba3, Satoru Yamaguchi4, Tomonori Tanikawa5, Katsuyuki Kuchiki1 and Hideaki Motoyama6, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (3)Hokkaido University, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Sapporo, Japan, (4)National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Snow and Ice Research Center, Nagaoka, Japan, (5)JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan, (6)National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
