Dear developers and users,
I am trying to understand the offline generation procedure of the 5-band SNICAR snow optics file used in Icepack:
snicar_optics_5bnd_snow_and_aerosols.nc
My understanding is that this file contains precomputed optical properties for snow and light-absorbing impurities / aerosols, which are then read by the SNICAR / delta-Eddington shortwave scheme during the model run. I have checked the Icepack source code and referred to Dang et al. and the SNICAR-AD description, but I am still not clear how this netCDF file was originally produced.
Could anyone help clarify the following points?
Thank you very much!
I am trying to understand the offline generation procedure of the 5-band SNICAR snow optics file used in Icepack:
snicar_optics_5bnd_snow_and_aerosols.nc
My understanding is that this file contains precomputed optical properties for snow and light-absorbing impurities / aerosols, which are then read by the SNICAR / delta-Eddington shortwave scheme during the model run. I have checked the Icepack source code and referred to Dang et al. and the SNICAR-AD description, but I am still not clear how this netCDF file was originally produced.
Could anyone help clarify the following points?
- Which offline model, code, or workflow was used to generate this file?
- Was it generated directly from SNICAR-AD / SNICARv3, or from a separate post-processing script?
- For the pure snow part, what assumptions were used for the snow grain radius, snow grain shape, ice refractive index, wavelength grid, and spectral weighting?
- For the aerosol / impurity part, were the optical properties taken from separate SNICAR aerosol files, such as black carbon or dust?
Thank you very much!