Evaluation of CloudSat snowfall rate profiles by a comparison with in situ micro-rain radar observations in East Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Lemonnier, Florentin, Madeleine, Jean-Baptiste, Claud, Chantal, Genthon, Christophe, Duran-Alarcon, Claudio, Palerme, Cyril, Berne, Alexis, Souverijns, Niels, van Lipzig, Nicole, Gorodetskaya, Irina, V, L'Ecuyer, Tristan, Wood, Norman
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL), Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes 2016-2019 (UGA 2016-2019 ), Norwegian Meteorological Institute Oslo (MET), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Universidade de Aveiro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.ME]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Meteorology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Dronning Maud Land; Dumont d'Urville; Dumont-d'Urville; Dumont d'Urville Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02087132; https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02087132/document; https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-02087132/file/tc-13-943-2019.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-943-2019

International audience The Antarctic continent is a vast desert and is the coldest and the most unknown area on Earth. It contains the Antarctic ice sheet, the largest continental water reservoir on Earth that could be affected by the current global warming, leading to sea level rise. The only signi...