Intercomparison of snowfall estimates derived from the CloudSat  Cloud Profiling Radar and the ground-based weather radar network over Sweden

Norin, L.; Devasthale, A.; L'Ecuyer, T. S.; Wood, N. B.; Smalley, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-5009-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-5009-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-5009-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 12

Research article

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01 Dec 2015

Research article |

| 01 Dec 2015

Intercomparison of snowfall estimates derived from the CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar and the ground-based weather radar network over Sweden

L. Norin, A. Devasthale, T. S. L'Ecuyer, N. B. Wood, and M. Smalley

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RC C2617: 'Review of: Intercomparison of snowfall estimates derived from the CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar and the ground based weather radar network over Sweden', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 Aug 2015
- AC C3531: 'Reply to Referee \# 1', Lars Norin, 26 Oct 2015
RC C3135: 'Review Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Sep 2015
- AC C3540: 'Reply to referee #2', Lars Norin, 26 Oct 2015

Short summary

The ability to estimate snowfall accurately is important for both weather and climate applications. In this work we have intercompared snowfall estimates from two observing systems: the space-based Cloud Profiling Radar on board NASA's CloudSat satellite and Swerad, the ground-based Swedish national weather radar network. The intercomparison shows encouraging agreement between these two observing systems despite their different sensitivities and user applications.