In early May, scientists involved in the Midlatitude Continental Convective Cloud Experiment (MC3E), a joint field program involving NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Program and ARM investigators, held their first onsite planning meeting to begin pinpointing the details for this major effort. Planned for April-May 2011 at the ARM Southern Great Plains site, the campaign is highly complex, involving five remote radiosonde sites, supplemental radars, coordinated aircraft, and a dense network of rain gauges and disdrometers. By heavily supplementing the routine measurements from the SGP site, the goal of MC3E is to provide the most complete characterization of convective cloud systems and their environment that has ever been obtained, providing details for the representation of cumulus clouds in computer models that have never before been available.
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