Welcome to biosnicar!

biosnicar is a free and open source software for simulating solar energy fluxes in snow and glacier ice with light absorbing impurities. It is a python translation of the widely used SNICAR model (available online at https://snow.engin.umich.edu/ (opens in a new tab); source code at https://github.com/chloewhicker/SNICAR-ADv4 (opens in a new tab)).

biosnicar is available as a Python package (opens in a new tab) that you can easily download and run yourself, or as a web application (opens in a new tab) that can be run code-free in your browser.

You can visit the About pages to learn about the theoretical background to biosnicar and we welcome contributions to the source code, the app or documentation!

To get up and running with biosnicar, follow the Quick Start guide.

You can navigate through the documentation using the menu in the left sidebar. See Modules to access reference documentation for every class and function in the biosnicar source code. See the User guides section to learn about key applications of biosnicar.