edu.ucar.opensky::articles:19306 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T02:44:07.317875 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7mg7r8w The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7mg7r8w https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00228.1 Jensen, M. P. author Petersen, W. A. author Bansemer, Aaron R. author Bharadwaj, N. author Carey, L. D. author Cecil, D. J. author Collis, S. M. author Del Genio, A. D. author Dolan, B. author Gerlach, J. author Giangrande, S. E. author Heymsfield, Andrew J. author Heymsfield, G. author Kollias, P. author Lang, T. J. author Nesbitt, S. W. author Neumann, A. author Poellot, M. author Rutledge, S. A. author Schwaller, M. author Tokay, A. author Williams, C. R. author Wolff, D. B. author Xie, S. author Zipser, E. J. author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E), a field program jointly led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, was conducted in south-central Oklahoma during April-May 2011. MC3E science objectives were motivated by the need to improve our understanding of midlatitude continental convective cloud system life cycles, microphysics, and GPM precipitation retrieval algorithms. To achieve these objectives, a multi scale surface- and aircraft-based in situ and remote sensing observing strategy was employed. A variety of cloud and precipitation events were sampled during MC3E, of which results from three deep convective events are highlighted. Vertical structure, air motions, precipitation drop size distributions, and ice properties were retrieved from multiwavelength radar, profiler, and aircraft observations for a mesoscale convective system (MCS) on 11 May. Aircraft observations for another MCS observed on 20 May were used to test agreement between observed radar reflectivities and those calculated with forward-modeled reflectivity and microwave brightness temperatures using in situ particle size distributions and ice water content. Multiplatform observations of a supercell that occurred on 23 May allowed for an integrated analysis of kinematic and microphysical interactions. A core updraft of 25 m supported growth of hail and large raindrops. Data collected during the MC3E campaign are being used in a number of current and ongoing research projects and are available through the ARM and NASA data archives. 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 2016 American Meteorological Society (AMS). None eng geoscientificInformation