Cross-validation of active and passive microwave snowfall products over the continental United States

Mroz, Kamil; Montopoli, Mario; Battaglia, Alessandro; Panegrossi, Giulia; Kirstetter, Pierre; Baldini, Luca

doi:10.1175/jhm-d-20-0222.1

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Cross-validation of active and passive microwave snowfall products over the continental United States

2021
By Mroz, Kamil ; Montopoli, Mario ; Battaglia, Alessandro ; ...
Source: Journal of Hydrometeorology (2021)

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Mroz, Kamil ; Montopoli, Mario ; Battaglia, Alessandro ; Panegrossi, Giulia ; Kirstetter, Pierre ; ... More +

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Surface snowfall rate estimates from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission’s Core Observatory sensors and the CloudSat radar are compared to those from the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) radar composite product over the continental United States during the period from November 2014 to September 2020. The analysis includes: the Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) retrieval and its single frequency counterparts, the GPM Combined Radar Radiometer Algorithm (CORRA), the CloudSat Snow Profile product (2C-SNOW-PROFILE) and two passive microwave retrievals, i.e., the Goddard PROFiling algorithm (GPROF) and the Snow retrievaL ALgorithm fOr gMi (SLALOM). The 2C-SNOW retrieval has the highest Heidke Skill Score (HSS) for detecting snowfall among the products analysed. SLALOM ranks second; it outperforms GPROF and the other GPM algorithms, all detecting only 30% of the snow events. Since SLALOM is trained with 2C-SNOW, it suggests that the optimal use of the information content in the GMI observations critically depends on the precipitation training dataset. All the retrievals underestimate snowfall rates by a factor of two compared to MRMS. Large discrepancies (RMSE of 0.7 to 1.5 mm h-1) between space-borne and ground-based snowfall rate estimates are attributed to the complexity of the ice scattering properties and to the limitations of the remote sensing systems: the DPR instrument has low sensitivity, while the radiometric measurements are affected by the confounding effects of the background surface emissivity and of the emission of supercooled liquid droplet layers.
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Journal of Hydrometeorology (2021)
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