Precipitation at Dumont d'Urville, Adélie Land, East Antarctica: the APRES3 field campaigns dataset

Genthon, Christophe; Berne, Alexis; Grazioli, Jacopo; Durán Alarcón, Claudio; Praz, Christophe; Boudevillain, Brice

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1605-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1605-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1605-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 3

06 Sep 2018

| 06 Sep 2018

Precipitation at Dumont d'Urville, Adélie Land, East Antarctica: the APRES3 field campaigns dataset

Christophe Genthon, Alexis Berne, Jacopo Grazioli, Claudio Durán Alarcón, Christophe Praz, and Brice Boudevillain

Data sets

Precipitation observations at the Dumont d’Urville Station, Adélie Land, East Antarctica. A. Berne, J. Grazioli, and C. Genthon https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.883562

Short summary

Antarctica suffers from a severe shortage of in situ observations of precipitation. The APRES3 program contributes to improving observation from both the surface and from space. A field campaign with various instruments was deployed at the coast of Adélie Land, with an intensive observing period in austral summer 2015–16, then continuous radar monitoring through 2016 and beyond. This paper provides a compact presentation of the APRES3 dataset, which is now made open to the scientific community.