Reply to “Comments on ‘A Relationship between Reflectivity and Snow Rate for a High-Altitude S-Band Radar’”

Jonathan P. Wolfe National Weather Service, Charleston, West Virginia

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Jefferson R. Snider Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming

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Corresponding author address: Jefferson R. Snider, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Ave., Laramie, WY 82071. E-mail: jsnider@uwyo.edu; jonathan.wolfe@noaa.gov

The original article that was the subject of this comment/reply can be found at http://staging.journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0112.1.

Corresponding author address: Jefferson R. Snider, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Ave., Laramie, WY 82071. E-mail: jsnider@uwyo.edu; jonathan.wolfe@noaa.gov

The original article that was the subject of this comment/reply can be found at http://staging.journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAMC-D-11-0112.1.

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