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In September 2013, the Mesoscale Dynamics Group at MU began a 3-year research endeavor, the Program for Research on Elevated Convection with Intense Precipitation (PRECIP).  In collaboration with the National Centers for Environmental Prediction's (NCEP) Weather Prediction Center (WPC), we shall establish better the nature of elevated convection with heavy rainfall and flash flooding. 

Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), this project broadens our previous work on wintertime "thundersnow" events.  As of this writing, we have nearly completed a forecasting procedure for warm season elevated convection with heavy rainfall in the Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma (MO-KS-OK) region of the United States, found to be favored in previous research.  This procedure will guide our field campaigns in 2014 and 2015, when teams will travel into the field with the intent to sample the elevated convection environment and its stability evolution, primarily using rawinsondes. 

During deployments, real-time data (not QC'd) and activities are updated via Facebook The PRECIP Facebook page.

Last updated:  Wed Dec 23 11:04 CST 2015
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