Ph.D. Candidate Stephanie Zick and Dr. Matyas recently presented research at the American Meteorological Society’s 37th Conference on Radar Meteorology in Norman, Oklahoma. Zick presented results from her recently-published paper “Tropical cyclones in the North American Regional Reanalysis: The impact of satellite-derived precipitation over ocean” appearing in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres (doi:10.1002/2015JD023722). Dr. Matyas presented a collaborative project comparing rainbands observed by ground-based weather radars during the landfall of Hurricane Isabel (2003) to those produced during a simulation of Isabel performed with the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF). Ph.D. student Jingyin Tang produced the radar mosaics, while Zick executed the WRF simulation. Matyas then used shape metrics to compare the position, size, and shape of the rainbands in the observed and simulated datasets. All three coauthors are funded by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award: BCS1053864.