The vertical structure of precipitation at two stations in East Antarctica derived from micro rain radars

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Duran-Alarcon, Claudio, Boudevillain, Brice, Genthon, Christophe, Grazioli, Jacopo, Souverijns, Niels, van Lipzig, Nicole P. M., Gorodetskaya, Irina V., Berne, Alexis
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Gottingen, Copernicus GmbH 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; Dumont d'Urville; Dumont-d'Urville; East Antarctica; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/267210; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-247-2019; https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/267210/files/tc-13-247-2019.pdf

Precipitation over Antarctica is the main term in the surface mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet, which is crucial for the future evolution of the sea level worldwide. Precipitation, however, remains poorly documented and understood mainly because of a lack of observations in this extreme envir...