A two-layer canopy with thermal inertia for an improved modelling of the sub-canopy snowpack energy-balance

I. Gouttevin, M. Lehning, T. Jonas, D. Gustafsson, and M. Mölder IRSTEA, Unité de Recherche Hydrologie-Hydraulique, 5 rue de la Doua, CS 70077, 69626 Villeurbanne CEDEX, France CRYOS, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Flüelastrasse 11, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland KTH, Department of Land and Water Resources engineering, Stockholm, Sweden Lund University, Department of Physical geography and Ecosystem science, Sölvegatan 12, 223 62 Lund, Sweden

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