« Tracked Raindrops Falling On Our Heads

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The image was obtained as a deep convective cloud system passed over the vertically pointed radar on August 27, 2010. The image displays a time-height plot of both the bulk radar structure obtained from the MCR's lower resolution (37m range resolution) waveform (inset) as well as the peculiar, nearly linear sloping radar reflectivity features (or "streaks") determined to have been generated by individual raindrops as they traversed the higher resolution (0.5m range resolution) radar beam.  (Graphics image designed by DR. Jerome Schmidt and Ms. Cynthia Karengin)

The image was obtained as a deep convective cloud system passed over the vertically pointed radar on August 27, 2010. The image displays a time-height plot of both the bulk radar structure obtained from the MCR’s lower resolution (37m range resolution) waveform (inset) as well as the peculiar, nearly linear sloping radar reflectivity features (or “streaks”) determined to have been generated by individual raindrops as they traversed the higher resolution (0.5m range resolution) radar beam. (Graphics image designed by DR. Jerome Schmidt and Ms. Cynthia Karengin)