Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX)
For program details and data access, see the RAINEX EOL Field Catalog.
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NAVY "Labstracts" report (pdf)
Robert A. Houze Jr., Jasmine Cetrone, S. Rita Brodzik, Shuyi S. Chen, Wei Zhao, Wen-Chau Lee, James A. Moore, Gregory J. Stossmeister, Michael M. Bell, and Robert F. Rogers, 2006: The Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment: Observations and Modeling of Hurricanes Katrina, Ophelia, and Rita. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 87, 1503-1521. (pdf)
R. A. Houze, S. S. Chen, B. F. Smull, W.-C. Lee, M. M. Bell., 2007: Hurricane Intensity and Eyewall Replacement. Science, 315:5816, 1235-1239. (pdf)
Falko Judt and Shuyi S. Chen, 2010: Convectively Generated Potential Vorticity in Rainbands and Formation of the Secondary Eyewall in Hurricane Rita of 2005. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 3581-3599. (pdf)