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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 6.

CloudSat CPR and DPR-derived global mean snowfall rate using Z-S relationships derived from APR2 and DPR data.

Instrument Mean snow rate (mm day−1) using APR2 fit Mean snow rate (mm day−1) using DPR fit
DPR (Ku) 0.0244 0.0467
CPR (all data) 0.0789 0.0989
CPR (>8 dBZ) 0.0498 0.0392