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How is ice more reflective than water?​

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In fact ice is slightly less reflective than water. ... The net result is that much more of the light is reflected from snow. So the difference isn't anything fundamental, it's just because water is continuous while snow isn't.

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In fact, ice is slightly less reflective than water. The reflectivity is related to the refractive index (in a rather complicated way) and the refractive index of ice is 1.31 while the refractive index of water is 1.33. The slightly lower refractive index of ice will cause a slightly lower reflectivity. In both cases, the reflectivity is about 0.05 i.e. at an air/water or air/ice surface about 5% of the light is reflected.

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