Evaluation of the CloudSat surface snowfall product over Antarctica using ground-based precipitation radars

Souverijns, Niels; Gossart, Alexandra; Lhermitte, Stef; Gorodetskaya, Irina V.; Grazioli, Jacopo; Berne, Alexis; Duran-Alarcon, Claudio; Boudevillain, Brice; Genthon, Christophe; Scarchilli, Claudio; van Lipzig, Nicole P. M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3775-2018

Articles | Volume 12, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3775-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3775-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 12

Research article

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30 Nov 2018

Research article |

| 30 Nov 2018

Evaluation of the CloudSat surface snowfall product over Antarctica using ground-based precipitation radars

Niels Souverijns, Alexandra Gossart, Stef Lhermitte, Irina V. Gorodetskaya, Jacopo Grazioli, Alexis Berne, Claudio Duran-Alarcon, Brice Boudevillain, Christophe Genthon, Claudio Scarchilli, and Nicole P. M. van Lipzig

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RC1: 'Reviewer for manuscript tc-2018-111', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Jul 2018
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Niels Souverijns, 04 Sep 2018
RC2: 'Interactive comment on “Evaluation of the CloudSat surface snowfall product over Antarctica using ground-based precipitation radars” by Niels Souverijns et al.', Florentin Lemonnier, 17 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Niels Souverijns, 04 Sep 2018

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AR by Niels Souverijns on behalf of the Authors (04 Sep 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 Oct 2018) by Philip Marsh

RR by Florentin Lemonnier (01 Nov 2018)

ED: Publish as is (20 Nov 2018) by Philip Marsh

AR by Niels Souverijns on behalf of the Authors (21 Nov 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Snowfall observations over Antarctica are scarce and currently limited to information from the CloudSat satellite. Here, a first evaluation of the CloudSat snowfall record is performed using observations of ground-based precipitation radars. Results indicate an accurate representation of the snowfall climatology over Antarctica, despite the low overpass frequency of the satellite, outperforming state-of-the-art model estimates. Individual snowfall events are however not well represented.