GEOCRI Webinar: Small-scale spatial variability of surface properties over sea ice and snow

Title: Small-scale spatial variability of surface properties over sea ice and snow

Speaker: Roberta Pirazzini / Finnish Meteorological Institute

Time: 24 Jun 2026 ,15:30-16:30 Beijing time

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Roberta Pirazzini's Bio:

Pirazzini Roberta is senior scientist at the Meteorological Research Unit of the Finnish Me-teorological Institute (FMI). Her research interests include surface radiation and energy bud-gets over snow and ice, observing and modelling the interaction of solar radiation with snowand ice, and sea-ice albedo feedback and cloud radiative forcing on the surface temperatureover Polar Regions. She is also active in the development of surface-based and drone - basedinstrumental systems to measure snow and sea-ice albedo. She has participated to and/or organized several field campaigns in the Arctic, Antarctic, and in Alps over continental seasonalsnow as well as on sea-ice and polar ice shelves and ice sheets. Currently, Pirazzini is principalinvestigator of two national projects: one on the observation and modelling of Arctic and Ant:arctic snow and sea-ice mass and energy budget from point to model grid scales (Ice Scales),and the other on the role of snow in enhancing solar photovoltaic power generation (Snow-Power). She works on these topics also as a partner in several foreign projects, and as an activemember of international programmes such as the WMO Polar Coupled Analysis and Predictionfor Services (PCAPS) and Antarctica International Science & Infrastructure for Synchronous Observation (Antarctica InSync).