CloudSat snowfall estimates over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean: An assessment of independent retrieval methodologies and multi-year snowfall analysis

CloudSat spaceborne radar snowfall retrievals using two different methodologies – the 2C-SNOW-PROFILE (2C-SNOW) CloudSat product and the combined Kulie and Bennartz (2009) technique with the Hiley et al. (2011) reflectivity (Z) to snowfall rate (S) conversion (KBH) - are compared over Antarctica and surrounding Southern Ocean environments. KBH algorithm sensitivity tests are performed to demonstrate how retrievals are affected by algorithm...