Fig. 11: Evolving aspects of precipitation for a selected landfalling rainband and its associated convective elements. | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fig. 11: Evolving aspects of precipitation for a selected landfalling rainband and its associated convective elements.

From: Identifying mechanisms of tropical cyclone generated orographic precipitation with Doppler radar and rain gauge observations

Fig. 11

a Horizontal distributions of radar reflectivity (dBZ, color shading) at 1 km MSL from the WFS radar at 1717 UTC on 24 June 2011. The terrain height is indicated by contours with 200 m intervals from 100 to 900 m MSL. Line segment A-A’ marks the location of the vertical cross-section shown in b. The thick arrow indicates the position of the target convective element. b The A-A’ vertical cross-section of radar reflectivity (dBZ, color shading) and the underlying topography (km MSL, brown shading) along the section. The thick arrow indicates the position of the target convective element. c–h As in a and b but showing the results at 1723, 1729, and 1735 UTC on 24 June 2011, respectively.

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