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Snowfall Rate Products

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SFR is the instantaneous liquid-equivalent snowfall rate. It is retrieved from measurements taken by passive microwave sensors aboard certain polar-orbiting satellites (Metop-B, Metop-C, SNPP, N20, N21, amd GPM).