Radar measurements of blowing snow off a mountain ridge

Walter, Benjamin; Huwald, Hendrik; Gehring, Josué; Bühler, Yves; Lehning, Michael

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1779-2020

Articles | Volume 14, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1779-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1779-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 6

Research article

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03 Jun 2020

Research article |

| 03 Jun 2020

Radar measurements of blowing snow off a mountain ridge

Benjamin Walter, Hendrik Huwald, Josué Gehring, Yves Bühler, and Michael Lehning

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Final revised paper (published on 03 Jun 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 18 Dec 2019)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of the paper “Radar measurements of blowing snow off a mountain ridge”', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Jan 2020
- AC1: 'Answers to Review 1', Benjamin Walter, 03 Mar 2020
RC2: 'Reviewer comments', Michele Guala, 18 Jan 2020
- AC2: 'Answers to Review 2', Benjamin Walter, 03 Mar 2020

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

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (11 Mar 2020) by Guillaume Chambon

AR by Benjamin Walter on behalf of the Authors (16 Apr 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (22 Apr 2020) by Guillaume Chambon

AR by Benjamin Walter on behalf of the Authors (27 Apr 2020)

Short summary

We applied a horizontally mounted low-cost precipitation radar to measure velocities, frequency of occurrence, travel distances and turbulence characteristics of blowing snow off a mountain ridge. Our analysis provides a first insight into the potential of radar measurements for determining blowing snow characteristics, improves our understanding of mountain ridge blowing snow events and serves as a valuable data basis for validating coupled numerical weather and snowpack simulations.