A 7-year record of vertical profiles of radar measurements and precipitation estimates at Dumont d'Urville, Adélie Land, East Antarctica

Valentin Wiener, Marie-Laure Roussel, Christophe Genthon, Étienne Vignon, Jacopo Grazioli, and Alexis Berne

Data sets

7 years of Micro Rain Radar (METEK MRR-2) data at the Dumont d'Urville station, coastal Adélie Land, Antarctica. Valentin Wiener, Christophe Genthon, and Alexis Berne https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.962727

Interactive computing environment

Processing code for the derivation of the Ze-S relation Valentin Wiener https://gitlab.in2p3.fr/valentin.wiener/ze-s-relation-mrr.git

Short summary

This paper presents 7 years of data from a precipitation radar deployed at the Dumont d'Urville station in East Antarctica. The main characteristics of the dataset are outlined in a short statistical study. Interannual and seasonal variability are also investigated. Then, we extensively describe the processing method to retrieve snowfall profiles from the radar data. Lastly, a brief comparison is made with two climate models as an application example of the dataset.