Microphysical characteristics analysis of three heavy snowfall events from the MASCRAD campaign in Greeley, Colorado, USA

Analysis of data from three snow events during the MASCRAD winter campaign in Greeley, Colorado, USA, are presented. The campaign entailed multi-angle snowflake camera (MASC), 2D-video disdrometer, precipitation occurrence sensor system, Pluvio gauge, weather station, all installed at the well-established MASCRAD (MASC + Radar) snow field site, as well as state-of-the-art S- and X-band polarimetric radars. We present here microphysical characteristics analysis for three heavy snowfall cases, on (a) 21–22 Feb 2015, (b) 15 Dec 2015, and (c) 01–02 Feb 2016.