Antarctic precipitation
Atmospheric WAter Cycle over Antarctica – AWACA project
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Radar deployed at Princess Elizabeth station, Antarctica
Precipitation microphysics
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Example of good quality images of individual snowfall particles, classified according to Praz et al 2017. Images collected with a Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera (MASC)
Convective precipitation
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Supercell thunderstorm as observed from Locarno-Monti (copyright Luca Panziera)
Quantitative precipitation estimation
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GOES-16 True Color Image with (overlayed) GPM-DPR precipitation estimates
Automatic monitoring
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From outdoor measurement (1.), through data analysis (2.) until the final product, pollen maps and predictions (3.)