ConceptMCS
Mesoscale Convective System
A convective precipitation system with horizontal scales of tens to hundreds of kilometers and a lifetime of several to more than ten hours, often accompanied by short-duration heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and strong winds. It lies between the synoptic scale and the local scale.
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Oct 30
Physics-based precipitation forecasting models struggle to resolve mesoscale convective systems (MCS), because traditional global models are limited by grid resolutions of tens of kilometers and can only rely on parameterization schemes for approximation.
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