Alebdo and snow masking of grass and shrub

[Andrie]

Dear Team,

I am trying to add some forest cover and remove some shrub and grass cover in CLM5.0 in CESM2.1.2.
Since I could not find it in the technical note for CLM, I wanted to ask here what the albedo and snow-masking properties of the shrub and grass PFTs are and how they differ.

Thanks a lot for your help!

 

[slevis]

The reason you did not find it in the Tech Note is that the model does not specify albedo and snow masking by PFT. Instead you should read this section of the Tech Note:

2.3. Surface Albedos — ctsm release-clm5.0 documentation