Utilizing Spaceborne Radars to Retrieve Dry Snowfall

@article{Kulie2009UtilizingSR,
  title={Utilizing Spaceborne Radars to Retrieve Dry Snowfall},
  author={Mark S. Kulie and Ralf Bennartz},
  journal={Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology},
  year={2009},
  volume={48},
  pages={2564-2580}
}
  • M. KulieR. Bennartz
  • Published 1 December 2009
  • Environmental Science
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Abstract A dataset consisting of one year of CloudSat Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) near-surface radar reflectivity Z associated with dry snowfall is examined in this study. The CPR observations are converted to snowfall rates S using derived Ze–S relationships, which were created from backscatter cross sections of various nonspherical and spherical ice particle models. The CPR reflectivity histograms show that the dominant mode of global near-surface dry snowfall has extremely light reflectivity… 
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