Robert A. Rilling

TL;DR: Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) field campaign as mentioned in this paper emphasized measurements of processes related to the formation of rain in shallow cumuli, and how rain subsequently modifies the structure and ensemble statistics of trade wind clouds.

TL;DR: The extensive aerosol, cloud, drizzle and boundary layer sampling made over open areas of the Northeast Pacific along 2-day trajectories during CSET is unprecedented and will enable modeling studies of boundary layer cloud system evolution and the role of different processes in that evolution.

TL;DR: Early radar echo development in trade wind cumulus clouds is studied using the equivalent reflectivity factor Ze combined with the differential reflectivity Zdr as discussed by the authors, and the results show that the radar echo evolution follows the Marshall-Palmer distribution with scatter toward higher values of Zdr especially in the earliest stages of echo intensification, where some of the scatter in the whole-sweep values is caused by size sorting.

TL;DR: In this paper, a radar echo classification algorithm was developed to identify "cloud echo" and distinguish it from artifacts such as the echo from the surface, transmitter leakage, and a number of other categories.