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The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (Mc3E)

Jensen, M. P., W. Petersen, A. Bansemer, N. Bharadwaj, L. D. Carey, D. Cecil, S. M. Collis, A. Del Genio, B. Dolan, J. Gerlach, S. E. Giangrande, A. Heymsfield, G. Heymsfield, P. Kollias, T. J. L. ang, S. W. Nesbitt, A. Neumann, M. Poellot, S. A. Rutledge, M. Schwaller, A. Tokay, C. R. Williams, D. B. Wolff, S. Xie, and E. Zipser (2016), The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (Mc3E), Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 1667-1686, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00228.1.
Abstract: 

MC3E is a field campaign aimed at acquiring a more complete understanding of the physical processes driving the life cycle of midlatitude convective clouds.

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Mission: 
Global Precipitation Measurement