The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission's scientific achievements and societal contributions: Reviewing four years of advanced rain and snow …

G Skofronick‐Jackson, D Kirschbaum… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation represents a life‐critical energy and hydrologic exchange between the Earth's
atmosphere and its surface. As such, knowledge of where, when and how much rain and …

[HTML][HTML] Microphysical properties of snow and their link to Ze–S relations during BAECC 2014

A von Lerber, D Moisseev, LF Bliven… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Microphysical Properties of Snow and Their Link to Ze–S Relations during BAECC 2014 in:
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 56 Issue 6 (2017) Jump to Content …

Retrievals of riming and snow density from vertically pointing Doppler radars

SL Mason, CJ Chiu, RJ Hogan… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Retrievals of ice and snow are made from Ka‐and W‐band zenith‐pointing Doppler radars
at Hyytiälä, Finland, during the snow experiment component of the Biogenic Aerosols …

European in-situ snow measurements: practices and purposes

R Pirazzini, L Leppänen, G Picard, JI Lopez-Moreno… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
In-situ snow measurements conducted by European institutions for operational, research,
and energy business applications were surveyed in the framework of the European …

Polarimetric radar relations for quantification of snow based on disdrometer data

P Bukovčić, A Ryzhkov, D Zrnić… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Accurate measurements of snow amounts by radar are very difficult to achieve. The inherent
uncertainty in radar snow estimates that are based on the radar reflectivity factor Z is caused …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of particle size distribution and internal structure for triple-frequency radar retrievals of the morphology of snow

SL Mason, RJ Hogan, CD Westbrook… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - amt.copernicus.org
The accurate representation of ice particles is essential for both remotely sensed estimates
of clouds and precipitation and numerical models of the atmosphere. As it is typical in radar …

Estimating radar reflectivity-Snowfall rate relationships and their uncertainties over Antarctica by combining disdrometer and radar observations

N Souverijns, A Gossart, S Lhermitte… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - Elsevier
Snowfall rate (SR) estimates over Antarctica are sparse and characterised by large
uncertainties. Yet, observations by precipitation radar offer the potential to get better insight …

Calculating the millimetre‐wave scattering phase function of snowflakes using the self‐similar Rayleigh–Gans Approximation

RJ Hogan, R Honeyager, J Tyynelä… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Exploitation of millimetre‐wave radiometer and radar observations of ice clouds and snow
requires the ability to model the scattering properties of snowflakes. This article extends the …

Quantifying the effect of riming on snowfall using ground‐based observations

D Moisseev, A von Lerber, J Tiira - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Ground‐based observations of ice particle size distribution and ensemble mean density are
used to quantify the effect of riming on snowfall. The rime mass fraction is derived from these …

Settling and clustering of snow particles in atmospheric turbulence

C Li, K Lim, T Berk, A Abraham, M Heisel… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The effect of turbulence on snow precipitation is not incorporated into present weather
forecasting models. Here we show evidence that turbulence is in fact a key influence on both …