The vertical structure of precipitation at two stations in East Antarctica derived from micro rain radars

Durán-Alarcón, Claudio; Boudevillain, Brice; Genthon, Christophe; Grazioli, Jacopo; Souverijns, Niels; van Lipzig, Nicole P. M.; Gorodetskaya, Irina V.; Berne, Alexis

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-247-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-247-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-247-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 1

Research article

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28 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 28 Jan 2019

The vertical structure of precipitation at two stations in East Antarctica derived from micro rain radars

Claudio Durán-Alarcón, Brice Boudevillain, Christophe Genthon, Jacopo Grazioli, Niels Souverijns, Nicole P. M. van Lipzig, Irina V. Gorodetskaya, and Alexis Berne

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RC1: 'Review of Durán-Alarcón et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Final response', Claudio Duran Alarcon, 19 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Review of Durán-Alarcón et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'Final response', Claudio Duran Alarcon, 19 Dec 2018

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (21 Dec 2018) by Mark Flanner

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Short summary

Precipitation is the main input in the surface mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet, but it is still poorly understood due to a lack of observations in this region. We analyzed the vertical structure of the precipitation using multiyear observation of vertically pointing micro rain radars (MRRs) at two stations located in East Antarctica. The use of MRRs showed the potential to study the effect of climatology and hydrometeor microphysics on the vertical structure of Antarctic precipitation.