Articles | Volume 19, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8101-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8101-2019
Research article
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21 Jun 2019
Research article |  | 21 Jun 2019

Spatial and temporal variability of snowfall over Greenland from CloudSat observations

Ralf Bennartz, Frank Fell, Claire Pettersen, Matthew D. Shupe, and Dirk Schuettemeyer

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (22 May 2019) by Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath
AR by Ralf Bennartz on behalf of the Authors (27 May 2019)  Author's response   Manuscript 
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The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is rapidly melting. Snowfall is the only source of ice mass over the GrIS. We use satellite observations to assess how much snow on average falls over the GrIS and what the annual cycle and spatial distribution of snowfall is. We find the annual mean snowfall over the GrIS inferred from CloudSat to be 34 ± 7.5 cm yr−1 liquid equivalent.
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