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Rainband logo #21000 A rainband is a cloud and precipitation structure associated with an area of rainfall which is significantly elongated. Rainbands can be stratiform or convective, and are generated by differences in temperature. When noted on weather radar imagery, this precipitation elongation is referred to as banded structure. Rainbands within tropical cyclones...
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rainband logo #21003(from the article `tropical cyclone`) In addition to deep convective cells (compact regions of vertical air movement) surrounding the eye, there are often secondary cells arranged in ...
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