THE MIDLATITUDE CONTINENTAL CONVECTIVE CLOUDS EXPERIMENT (MC3E)

[...]measurements of precipitation on the ground extending back upward through hydrometeors of all kinds in the convective cloud column were obtained via combined use of ground-based radars and supporting ground instrumentation. A few of the recently completed, current, and anticipated research activities are related to the numerical modeling of continental precipitating systems (e.g., Tao et al. 2013; Gustafson et al. 2014; Lang et al. 2014), satellite-based precipitation retrieval algorithm development and associated ground validation studies (e.g., Matsui et al. 2013; Heymsfield et al. 2013; Kuo et al. 2016; Olson et al. 2016; Bringi et al. 2015; Leppert and Cecil 2015; Williams 2016), deep convective vertical velocities (Giangrande et al. 2013a), the tracking and large-eddy simulation (LES)-scale modeling of shallow cumulus (Borque et al. 2014; Mechem et al. 2015), dual-polarization radar rainfall processing and estimation at shorter wavelengths (Giangrande et al. 2013b; Giangrande et al. 2014), evaluation of reanalysis product representation of the low-level jet (Berg et al. 2015), and studies of cold pools and convective redevelopment, meltinglayer precipitation microphysics studies (Heymsfield et al. 2015).