Evaluation of the CloudSat surface snowfall product over Antarctica using ground-based precipitation radars

<p>In situ observations of snowfall over the Antarctic Ice Sheet are scarce. Currently, continent-wide assessments of snowfall are limited to information from the Cloud Profiling Radar on board the CloudSat satellite, which has not been evaluated up to now. In this study, snowfall derived from...

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Main Authors: N. Souverijns, A. Gossart, S. Lhermitte, I. V. Gorodetskaya, J. Grazioli, A. Berne, C. Duran-Alarcon, B. Boudevillain, C. Genthon, C. Scarchilli, N. P. M. van Lipzig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2018-11-01
Series:The Cryosphere
Online Access:https://www.the-cryosphere.net/12/3775/2018/tc-12-3775-2018.pdf