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Large-scale atmospheric state and cloud/precipitation characteristics during MC3E

 
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Authors

Michael Jensen — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Pavlos Kollias — Stony Brook University
Scott Giangrande — Brookhaven National Laboratory
Scott Matthew Collis — Argonne National Laboratory
Walter A. Petersen — NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Shaocheng Xie — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Heike Kalesse-Los — University of Leipzig

Category

Field Campaigns

Description

The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E), a joint field campaign of the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility and NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission, took place at the ARM Southern Great Plains site between April 22 and June 6, 2011. The major objective of this campaign was the collection of a comprehensive data set for the study of a variety of convective cloud/storm conditions targeting processes important for the parameterization of convection in large-scale models and the retrieval of precipitation from space-borne sensors over land. This poster will present initial analysis of relationships between large-scale atmospheric state derived from the MC3E sounding network (e.g., VARANAL, CAPE, CIN) and the cloud and precipitation characteristics observed by the MC3E instrumentation.