Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2755-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2755-2017
Research article
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05 Dec 2017
Research article |  | 05 Dec 2017

Blowing snow detection from ground-based ceilometers: application to East Antarctica

Alexandra Gossart, Niels Souverijns, Irina V. Gorodetskaya, Stef Lhermitte, Jan T. M. Lenaerts, Jan H. Schween, Alexander Mangold, Quentin Laffineur, and Nicole P. M. van Lipzig

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AR by Alexandra Gossart on behalf of the Authors (14 Sep 2017)
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (18 Sep 2017) by Xavier Fettweis
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (25 Sep 2017)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (07 Oct 2017)
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (07 Oct 2017)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (12 Oct 2017) by Xavier Fettweis
AR by Alexandra Gossart on behalf of the Authors (20 Oct 2017)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Publish as is (23 Oct 2017) by Xavier Fettweis
AR by Alexandra Gossart on behalf of the Authors (25 Oct 2017)  Manuscript 
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Short summary
Blowing snow plays an important role on local surface mass balance of Antarctica. We present here the blowing snow detection algorithm, to retrieve blowing snow occurrence from the attenuated backscatter signal of ceilometers set up at two station. There is a good correspondence in detection of heavy blowing snow by the algorithm and the visual observations performed at Neumayer station. Moreover, most of the blowing snow occurs during events bringing precipitation from the coast inland.