Evaluation of CloudSat’s cloud-profiling radar for mapping snowfall rates across the Greenland Ice Sheet

Johnny Ryan1, Laurence C Smith1, Mengxi Wu2, Clément Miège3, Lynn Montgomery4, Lora Koenig5, Xavier Fettweis6, Brice Noel7 and Michiel R van den Broeke8, (1)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (3)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (5)NSIDC, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, (7)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (8)Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands