Rainbands are concentric, curved bands of showers and thunderstorms that, together with the eyewall and the eye, constitute a hurricane or tropical storm.
Rainbands may produce tornados.
[edit] Bibliography
- "Tropical Cyclone Structure". NWS JetStream – Online School for Weather. National Weather Service.
- "Hurricane Basics". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- "Anatomy of a Hurricane". Lecture Notes for Chapter 15 – Hurricanes – Survey of Meteorology and Lyndon State College.
- National Science Foundation (2005-08-08). "Rainbands Offer Better Forecasts of Hurricane Intensity". Press release. Retrieved on 2008-09-06.
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- G.M. Barnes and E.J. Zipser (September 1983). Mesoscale and Convective Structure of a Hurricane Rainband. pp. 2125–2137, http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&issn=1520-0469&volume=040&issue=09&page=2125&ct=1.
- Cetrone, Jasmine; R. A. Houze, Jr. and M. M. Bell. "Secondary eyewall structure in Hurricane Rita: Results from RAINEX" in 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology..
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