Effective reflectivity, vertical velocity, spectral width and snowfall rate estimates derived from a micro rain radar (MRR) at the Dumont d'Urville station, Adelie Land, East Antarctica ...

• Main Authors: Durán-Alarcón, Claudio, Boudevillain, Brice, Genthon, Christophe, Grazioli, Jacopo, Berne, Alexis
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic Precipitation; vertically-pointing micro rain radar MRR; Vertical Structure of Precipitation; Research station; Antarctic; Brice; Dumont d'Urville; Dumont d'Urville Station; Dumont-d'Urville; East Antarctica; Gorodetskaya; The Antarctic; Adelie Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.897614; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.897614

Antarctic precipitation is the main positive component in the surface mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet, thus it is closely related to the evolution of the sea level worldwide. The lack of observations, at both surface and the vertical structure, have hindered the understanding of this important component. Recently a study of the vertical structure of the precipitation in Antarctica have been carried out using micro rain radar (MRR) observations (Durán-Alarcón et al., 2019, TC) at two different sites: Dumont d'Urville (DDU) and Princess Elisabeth (PE) stations. The present collection consists in 2-years of vertical profiles of effective reflectivity (Ze), mean Doppler velocity (W), spectral width (SW) and snowfall rate (S) derived from a K-band vertically-pointing micro rain radar (MRR), obtained at DDU in the framework of the Antarctic Precipitation Remote Sensing from Surface and Space project (APRES3). The observation range of the profiles is between 300 m and 3 km above ground level, with 100m and ... : Supplement to: Durán-Alarcón, Claudio; Boudevillain, Brice; Genthon, Christophe; Grazioli, Jacopo; Souverijns, Niels; van Lipzig, Nicole P M; Gorodetskaya, Irina V; Berne, Alexis (2019): The vertical structure of precipitation at two stations in East Antarctica derived from micro rain radars. The Cryosphere, 13(1), 247-264 ...