NAME RADAR-PROFILING-SOUNDING (OBJECTIVES)
- To describe the daily evolution of “ordinary”convective rainfall over the SMO, the GOC coastal plain and the southern Gulf region.
- To describe the principal mechanisms that force organized mesoscale rainfall systems within the diurnal cycle (organization to larger scales).
- To clarify relationships between convection over the SMO and Q-flux from the GOC and the GOM.
- To observe moisture surges and associated LLJ’s in the GOC in the broader regional context of tropical easterly waves and mid-latitude westerly trough passages.
- To clarify relationships between GOC moisture surges and precipitation.