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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-943-2019
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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
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire de Météorologie dynamique, Sorbonne Université, École normale supérieure, PSL Research University, École polytechnique, CNRS, LMD/IPSL, 75005 Paris, France
Jean-Baptiste Madeleine
Laboratoire de Météorologie dynamique, Sorbonne Université, École normale supérieure, PSL Research University, École polytechnique, CNRS, LMD/IPSL, 75005 Paris, France
Chantal Claud
Laboratoire de Météorologie dynamique, Sorbonne Université, École normale supérieure, PSL Research University, École polytechnique, CNRS, LMD/IPSL, 75005 Paris, France
Christophe Genthon
Laboratoire de Météorologie dynamique, Sorbonne Université, École normale supérieure, PSL Research University, École polytechnique, CNRS, LMD/IPSL, 75005 Paris, France
Claudio Durán-Alarcón
CNRS, Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
Cyril Palerme
Development Centre for Weather Forecasting, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Alexis Berne
Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, Environmental Engineering Institute, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering,
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Niels Souverijns
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Nicole van Lipzig
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Irina V. Gorodetskaya
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Tristan L'Ecuyer
Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Norman Wood
Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Physics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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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.
Evaluation of the vertical precipitation rate profiles of CloudSat radar by comparison with two...
