Arctic snowfall climatology from CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar, 2007-2010

Arctic snowfall climatology produced from the version R05 of the CloudSat 2C-SNOW-PROFILE product is available. It covers the 2007-2010 period over the latitudes from 58.5°N to 82°S. The monthly snowfall rates in this file have been calculated using the observations with: - a snow retrieval status lower than 3 - and a snowfall rate surface confidence > 1

Additionnaly, the monthly surface snowfall rate uncertainties, number of CloudSat orbits as well as number of observations are available. The number of observations over these 4 years is not sufficient to consider snowfall rates monthly (Edel et al. 2020). If one wants to obtain monthly snowfall rates, it is necessary to average multiple years.

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Edel, Leo, Claud, Chantal, Palerme, Cyril, Genthon, Christophe, Wood, Norman B, L'Ecuyer, Tristan (2020). Dataset: Arctic snowfall climatology from CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar, 2007-2010. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.914213

DOI retrieved: 2020

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Imported on November 30, 2024
Last update November 30, 2024
License CC-BY-4.0
Source https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.914213
Author Edel, Leo
Given Name Leo
Family Name Edel
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Claud, Chantal
Palerme, Cyril
Genthon, Christophe
Wood, Norman B
L'Ecuyer, Tristan
Source Creation 2020
Publication Year 2020
Subject Areas
Name: Atmosphere

Related Identifiers
Title: Arctic Snowfall from CloudSat Observations and Reanalyses
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0105.1
Type: DOI
Relation: References
Year: 2020
Source: Journal of Climate
Authors: Edel Leo , Claud Chantal , Genthon Christophe , Palerme Cyril , Wood Norman B , L'Ecuyer Tristan , Bromwich David H .