A Preliminary Analysis of SMART-R Observations from DYNAMO

SMART-R is a truck-mounted C-band, Doppler radar that was deployed during the Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) campaign on Addu Atoll, Maldives. One of SMART-R's objectives was to provide continuous volume scans of precipitating clouds during all phases of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) for the full six months of the campaign. From the baseline reflectivity observations, a suite of products including rain maps, echo-top heights, convective-stratiform classifications, reflectivity PDFs with height, and rain/snow water content estimates was created. This is a preliminary analysis of these products to help indicate the role that precipitating cloud populations may have in the initiation and evolution of multiple MJO events.