Measurements of precipitation in Dumont d'Urville, Adélie Land, East Antarctica

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: J. Grazioli, C. Genthon, B. Boudevillain, C. Duran-Alarcon, M. Del Guasta, J.-B. Madeleine, A. Berne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2017
• Subjects: geo; envir; Austral; Dumont d'Urville; Dumont d’Urville; Dumont-d'Urville; East Antarctica; Terre Adélie; Terre-Adélie; Antarc*; Antarctica; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1797-2017; https://www.the-cryosphere.net/11/1797/2017/tc-11-1797-2017.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/d69ce2c7ca17413da4c060c036d60d63

The first results of a campaign of intensive observation of precipitation in Dumont d'Urville, Antarctica, are presented. Several instruments collected data from November 2015 to February 2016 or longer, including a polarimetric radar (MXPol), a Micro Rain Radar (MRR), a weighing gauge (Pluvio2...