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: F. Lemonnier, J.-B. Madeleine, C. Claud, C. Genthon, C. Durán-Alarcón, C. Palerme, A. Berne, N. Souverijns, N. van Lipzig, I. V. Gorodetskaya, T. L'Ecuyer, N. Wood
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2019
• Subjects: geo; envir; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; Dumont d'Urville; Dumont d'Urville Station; Dumont-d'Urville; East Antarctica; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-943-2019; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/13/943/2019/tc-13-943-2019.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/4b871c57da574e9f92e783c41aa6acdc

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...