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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-247-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-247-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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28 Jan 2019
Research article |
| 28 Jan 2019
| 28 Jan 2019
The vertical structure of precipitation at two stations in East Antarctica derived from micro rain radars
Claudio Durán-Alarcón
CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP Institute of Engineering, Université Grenoble Alpes, IGE, 38000 Grenoble, France
Brice Boudevillain
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP Institute of Engineering, Université Grenoble Alpes, IGE, 38000 Grenoble, France
Christophe Genthon
CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP Institute of Engineering, Université Grenoble Alpes, IGE, 38000 Grenoble, France
Jacopo Grazioli
Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, Locarno-Monti, Switzerland
Niels Souverijns
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Nicole P. M. van Lipzig
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Irina V. Gorodetskaya
Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Alexis Berne
Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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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.
Precipitation is the main input in the surface mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet, but it...
