This study uses NOAA airborne Doppler radar data to tie together the many different characteristics of convective rainband updrafts that have been documented, both by observations and from modeling studies. The results help shed light on how these updraft circulations are organized and what underlying dynamics might contribute to the observed organization. You can access the paper at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JD035718. For more information, contact aoml.communications@noaa.gov.
The authors thank John Gamache and Michael Fischer for developing and maintaining the Tail Doppler Radar (TDR) analysis dataset at HRD. We also thank NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center staff, who have collected the TDR data over many years and made such multi-case studies possible. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. AGS-1810869.