2015
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-421-2015
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The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) sounding network: operations, processing and analysis

Abstract: Abstract. The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) took place during the spring of 2011 centered in north-central Oklahoma, USA. The main goal of this field campaign was to capture the dynamical and microphysical characteristics of precipitating convective systems in the US Central Plains. A major component of the campaign was a six-site radiosonde array designed to capture the large-scale variability of the atmospheric state with the intent of deriving model forcing data sets. Over the … Show more

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“…Simulated PDFs of radar echoes and peak radar reflectivity profiles were improved both in intensity and shape for both cases. In T2015, the same 4ICE scheme was applied and further improved in the regional‐scale NU‐WRF to study an intense mesoscale convective system that occurred on 20 May 2011 in central Oklahoma during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) [ Jensen et al ., ]. The simulated radar reflectivity, rainfall intensity, and cloud organization and structure are in better agreement with observations than NU‐WRF simulations with the Goddard 3ICE microphysics schemes.…”
Section: Model and Validation Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Simulated PDFs of radar echoes and peak radar reflectivity profiles were improved both in intensity and shape for both cases. In T2015, the same 4ICE scheme was applied and further improved in the regional‐scale NU‐WRF to study an intense mesoscale convective system that occurred on 20 May 2011 in central Oklahoma during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) [ Jensen et al ., ]. The simulated radar reflectivity, rainfall intensity, and cloud organization and structure are in better agreement with observations than NU‐WRF simulations with the Goddard 3ICE microphysics schemes.…”
Section: Model and Validation Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For the IOPs, one additional radiosonde was launched at 10:30 LT to enhance diurnal coverage. Basic thermodynamic processing was performed following Jensen et al (2015) to estimate convective forcing parameters such as the lifting condensation level (LCL), mixed-layer height (MLH), convective available potential energy (CAPE) and convective inhibition (CIN). For each of these parameters, surface parcels are defined by the level of the maximum virtual temperature in the lowest kilometer.…”
Section: Radiosonde Surface Meteorology and Large-scale Forcing Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This location was chosen to sample the extremes of the local pristine atmosphere, as well as the effects of the Manaus, Brazil, pollution plume. The AMF was equipped to capture a continuous record of column cloud and precipitation characteristics from multi-sensor profiling instrumentation, while routine surface meteorology and flux measurements along with balloon-borne radiosonde measurements provided information on the local thermodynamic state (e.g., Kollias et al, 2009;Xie et al, 2015;Tang et al, 2016). Deploying such an extended, comprehensive cloud instrumentation suite of this sort is unique to Amazon basin studies and rare within global climate-cloud interaction studies overall, particularly in the tropics.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Three-to four-day periods are selected from three field campaigns: the Atmospheric Radiation and Measurement 1997 (ARM97) Intensive Observation Period (IOP) (Xu et al 2002;Khairoutdinov and Randall 2003), the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) (Petersen and Jensen 2012;Jensen et al 2015Jensen et al , 2016, and the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE) (May et al 2008;Xie et al 2010). Three-to four-day periods are selected from three field campaigns: the Atmospheric Radiation and Measurement 1997 (ARM97) Intensive Observation Period (IOP) (Xu et al 2002;Khairoutdinov and Randall 2003), the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) (Petersen and Jensen 2012;Jensen et al 2015Jensen et al , 2016, and the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE) (May et al 2008;Xie et al 2010).…”
Section: Model and Case Descriptionsmentioning
confidence: 99%