Summary: BAMEX investigated bow echoes, principally those which produce damaging surface winds and last at least 4 hours and larger convective systems which produce long lived mesoscale convective vortices (MCVs). The main objectives regarding bow echoes were to understand and improve prediction of the mesoscale and cell-scale processes that produce severe winds. For MCV producing systems the objectives were to understand MCV formation within MCSs, the role of MCVs in initiating and modulating convection, the feedback of convection onto MCV intensity, and to improve the overall predictability of the vortex-convection coupled system.
