Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3195-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3195-2020
Research article
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21 Sep 2020
Research article |  | 21 Sep 2020

How much snow falls in the world's mountains? A first look at mountain snowfall estimates in A-train observations and reanalyses

Anne Sophie Daloz, Marian Mateling, Tristan L'Ecuyer, Mark Kulie, Norm B. Wood, Mikael Durand, Melissa Wrzesien, Camilla W. Stjern, and Ashok P. Dimri

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (22 Apr 2020) by Guillaume Chambon
AR by Anne Sophie Daloz on behalf of the Authors (29 May 2020)  Author's response 
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (26 Jun 2020) by Guillaume Chambon
AR by Anne Sophie Daloz on behalf of the Authors (29 Jun 2020)  Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (08 Jul 2020) by Guillaume Chambon
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (19 Jul 2020)
RR by Jean-Baptiste Madeleine (20 Jul 2020)
ED: Publish as is (24 Jul 2020) by Guillaume Chambon
AR by Anne Sophie Daloz on behalf of the Authors (03 Aug 2020)
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Short summary
The total of snow that falls globally is a critical factor governing freshwater availability. To better understand how this resource is impacted by climate change, we need to know how reliable the current observational datasets for snow are. Here, we compare five datasets looking at the snow falling over the mountains versus the other continents. We show that there is a large consensus when looking at fractional contributions but strong dissimilarities when comparing magnitudes.