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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Appl Meteorol Climatol. 2019 Jun 24;58(7):1429–1448. doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0124.1

TABLE 2.

CloudSat and GPM falling snow products used in this analysis.

Product name Short description of algorithm Native resolution Source URL
2AGPROFGMI Bayesian a priori database using previously observed GPM DPR retrievals as rain rates and GMI brightness temperatures; level 2A product using GPROF algorithm on GMI 15 km https://pmm.nasa.gov/data-access/downloads/gpm
2BCMB Starts with DPR retrievals and iterates until GMI observations are matched; level 2B combined product 5 km https://pmm.nasa.gov/data-access/downloads/gpm
2ADPR NS Ku-only retrievals; level 2A product 5 km https://pmm.nasa.gov/data-access/downloads/gpm
2ADPR MS Uses matched Ku + Ka reflectivities 5 km https://pmm.nasa.gov/data-access/downloads/gpm
2ADPR HS Ka-only retrievals in high-sensitivity mode with 500-m vertical resolution retrievals 5 km https://pmm.nasa.gov/data-access/downloads/gpm
2C-SNOW-PROFILE Uses CPR W-band only data; level 2C product −1.5 km http://www.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/order-data/r04-data-search