Light-absorption of dust and elemental carbon in snow in the Indian Himalaya and the 1 Finnish Arctic 2 3

Atmospheric Composition Research, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland 8 Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 9 Sweden 10 The Energy and Resource Institute, New Delhi, India 11 The Energy and Resource Institute University, New Delhi, India 12 Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 13 Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 14 Expert Services, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland 15 Arctic Research Center, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Sodankylä, Finland 16 17