Articles | Volume 15, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-7235-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-7235-2022
Research article
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16 Dec 2022
Research article |  | 16 Dec 2022

Consistency test of precipitating ice cloud retrieval properties obtained from the observations of different instruments operating at Dome C (Antarctica)

Gianluca Di Natale, David D. Turner, Giovanni Bianchini, Massimo Del Guasta, Luca Palchetti, Alessandro Bracci, Luca Baldini, Tiziano Maestri, William Cossich, Michele Martinazzo, and Luca Facheris

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CONCORDIA AWS Meteorological Data at the Italian Antarctic Meteo-Climatological Observatory at Concordia since 2005 Paolo Grigioni, Giuseppe Camporeale, Virginia Ciardini, Lorenzo De Silvestri, Antonio Iaccarino, Marco Proposito, and Claudio Scarchilli https://doi.org/10.12910/DATASET2022-002

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In this paper, we describe a new approach to test the consistency of the precipitating ice cloud optical and microphysical properties in Antarctica, Dome C, retrieved from hyperspectral measurements in the far-infrared, with the reflectivity detected by a co-located micro rain radar operating at 24 GHz. The retrieved ice crystal sizes were found in accordance with the direct measurements of an optical imager, also installed at Dome C, which can collect the falling ice particles.