edu.ucar.opensky::articles:24623 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-24T23:10:06.747050 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d71839zm Snowfall in the Northern Great Lakes: Lessons learned from a multisensor observatory 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d71839zm https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0128.1 Kulie, M. S. author Pettersen, C. author Merrelli, A. J. author Wagner, T. J. author Wood, N. B. author Dutter, M. author Beachler, D. author Kluber, T. author Turner, R. author Mateling, M. author Lenters, J. author Blanken, P. author Maahn, M. author Spence, C. author Kneifel, S. author Kucera, Paul A. author Tokay, A. author Bliven, L. F. author Wolff, D. B. author Petersen, W. A. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher A multisensor snowfall observational suite has been deployed at the Marquette, Michigan, National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office (KMQT) since 2014. Micro Rain Radar (MRR; profiling radar), Precipitation Imaging Package (PIP; snow particle imager), and ancillary ground-based meteorological observations illustrate the unique capabilities of these combined instruments to document radar and concomitant microphysical properties associated with northern Great Lakes snowfall regimes. Lake-effect, lake-orographic, and transition event case studies are presented that illustrate the variety of snowfall events that occur at KMQT. Case studies and multiyear analyses reveal the ubiquity of snowfall produced by shallow events. These shallow snowfall features and their distinctive microphysical fingerprints are often difficult to discern with conventional remote sensing instruments, thus highlighting the scientific and potential operational value of MRR and PIP observations. The importance of near-surface lake-orographic snowfall enhancement processes in extreme snowfall events and regime-dependent snow particle microphysical variability controlled by regime and environmental factors are also highlighted. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright 2021 American Meteorological Society (AMS). None eng geoscientificInformation