SNOW-PROFILE) is compared with NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory's Multi-Radar
Multi-Sensor (MRMS/Q3) system precipitation products from 2009 through 2010. The results
show that:(1) Compared to Q3, CloudSat tends to observe more extremely light snowfall
events (< 0.2 mm/h) and snowfall rate (SR) between 0.6 to 1 mm/h, and detects less snowfall
events with SR between 0.2–0.5 mm/h.(2) CloudSat identifies 69.40% of snowfall events …