Evaluation of CloudSat snowfall rate profiles by a comparison with in situ micro-rain radar observations in East Antarctica

Lemonnier, Florentin; Madeleine, Jean-Baptiste; Claud, Chantal; Genthon, Christophe; Durán-Alarcón, Claudio; Palerme, Cyril; Berne, Alexis; Souverijns, Niels; van Lipzig, Nicole; Gorodetskaya, Irina V.; L'Ecuyer, Tristan; Wood, Norman

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-943-2019

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-943-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-943-2019

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

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19 Mar 2019

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Evaluation of CloudSat snowfall rate profiles by a comparison with in situ micro-rain radar observations in East Antarctica

Florentin Lemonnier, Jean-Baptiste Madeleine, Chantal Claud, Christophe Genthon, Claudio Durán-Alarcón, Cyril Palerme, Alexis Berne, Niels Souverijns, Nicole van Lipzig, Irina V. Gorodetskaya, Tristan L'Ecuyer, and Norman Wood

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RC1: 'Review of TC 2018 236 “Evaluation of CloudSat snowfall rate profiles by a comparison with in-situ micro rain radars observations in East Antarctica” by Lemonnier et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Jan 2019
- AC1: 'Revision of the research article tc-2018-236', Florentin Lemonnier, 22 Feb 2019
RC2: 'Comments on "Evaluation of CloudSat snowfall rate profiles by a comparison with in-situ micro rain radars observations in East Antarctica"', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Jan 2019
- AC2: 'Revision of the research article tc-2018-236', Florentin Lemonnier, 22 Feb 2019
EC1: 'Editor's recommendation', Florent Dominé, 25 Jan 2019
- AC3: 'Revision of the research article tc-2018-236', Florentin Lemonnier, 22 Feb 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Florentin Lemonnier on behalf of the Authors (22 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (01 Mar 2019) by Florent Dominé

AR by Florentin Lemonnier on behalf of the Authors (03 Mar 2019)

Short summary

Evaluation of the vertical precipitation rate profiles of CloudSat radar by comparison with two surface-based micro-rain radars (MRR) located at two antarctic stations gives a near-perfect correlation between both datasets, even though climatic and geographic conditions are different for the stations. A better understanding and reassessment of CloudSat uncertainties ranging from −13 % up to +22 % confirms the robustness of the CloudSat retrievals of snowfall over Antarctica.