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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 3.

Global snowfall occurrence (between ±66°) and mean rate from CloudSat 2CSP and DPR products. Only the near-nadir DPR profiles (rays 23–25, 11–13, and 11–12 for NS, MS, and HS, respectively) were considered in order to minimize height of the lowest clutter-free bin above the surface, and the phase classification was matched to the nearest GMI GPROF pixel.

Instrument	Snow occurrence (%)	Mean snow rate: mm day⁻¹ (mm yr⁻¹)
CloudSat (native resolution) 2CSP	2.422	0.1229 (44.9)
DPR NS	0.262	0.0401 (14.6)
DPR MS	0.262	0.0402 (14.7)
DPR HS	0.199	0.0208 (7.60)
CMB NS	0.284	0.0414 (15.1)
CMB MS	0.284	0.0444 (16.2)