CloudSat-inferred vertical structure of precipitation over the Antarctic continent

• Main Authors: Lemonnier, Florentin, Madeleine, Jean-Baptiste, Claud, Chantal, Palerme, Cyril, Genthon, Christophe, L'Ecuyer, Tristan, Wood, Norman B
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: Antarctica; Antarctica_3Dclim; climatology; CloudSat cloud-profiling radar; precipitation; Vertical structure; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909434; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.909434

Current global warming is causing significant changes in snowfall in polar regions, directly impacting the mass balance of the ice caps. The only water supply in Antarctica, precipitation, is poorly estimated from surface measurements. The onboard cloud-profiling radar of the CloudSat satellite prov...