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, Irma V., L'Ecuyer, Tristan, Wood, Norman
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Gottingen, Copernicus GmbH 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; Dumont d'Urville; Dumont d'Urville Station; Dumont-d'Urville; East Antarctica; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/267310; https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-943-2019; https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/267310/files/tc-13-943-2019.pdf

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 significant supply of ice is...