Ryan, J. C.; Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Smith, L. C.; Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Wu, M.; Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Cooley, S. W.; Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
Miège, C.; Department of Geography Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Montgomery, L. N.; Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Koenig, L. S.; National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Fettweis, Xavier ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Climatologie et Topoclimatologie
Noël, Brice ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Climatologie et Topoclimatologie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Sphères
van den Broeke, M. R.; Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Language :
English
Title :
Evaluation of CloudSat's Cloud-Profiling Radar for Mapping Snowfall Rates Across the Greenland Ice Sheet
Publication date :
January 2020
Journal title :
Journal of Geophysical Research. Atmospheres
ISSN :
2169-897X
eISSN :
2169-8996
Publisher :
Blackwell Publishing
Volume :
125
Issue :
4
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Tags :
CÉCI : Consortium des Équipements de Calcul Intensif
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration [US-DC] [US-DC] F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE] CÉCI - Consortium des Équipements de Calcul Intensif [BE] Brown University [US-RI] [US-RI]
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