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W hile the observational study of mesoscaleconvective systems (MCSs) has been activesince the 1940s (e.g., Newton 1950 and ref-erences within), until the Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex Experiment (BAMEX) there were no studies designed to sample multiscale aspects of these systems throughout the majority of their life
Davis et al. (Sun,) studied this question.