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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-4631</article-id>
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<article-title>Derivation of the multi-Doppler 3D wind field during the 2023 WesCon-WOEST campaign in southern England</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Thompson</surname>
<given-names>Robert J.</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Stein</surname>
<given-names>Thorwald H. M.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9215-5397</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lo</surname>
<given-names>Chun Hay Brian</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7661-7080</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jackson</surname>
<given-names>Robert</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2518-1234</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Westbrook</surname>
<given-names>Christopher D.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Collis</surname>
<given-names>Scott</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2303-687X</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Rhodes</surname>
<given-names>Lindsay</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Darlington</surname>
<given-names>Timothy</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4818-3835</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Norton</surname>
<given-names>Emily G.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Barrett</surname>
<given-names>Paul A.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3763-0909</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Neely III</surname>
<given-names>Ryan R.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4560-4812</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, US</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Leeds LS2 9PH, UK</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Met Office, Exeter, UK</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>NCAS, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>07</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>31</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Robert J. Thompson et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Convection drives high-impact weather events but remains challenging to represent accurately in modern convection-resolving weather prediction models. Robust evaluation and development of these models therefore require detailed observations of convective dynamics, with enough data for statistical application. In this study we present the first multi-Doppler radar 3D wind analysis in the UK. Five radars used in the WesCON-WOEST field campaign are used with an updated version of the PyDDA algorithm. This includes a newly implemented &quot;ORIGAMI&quot; unfolding algorithm based on model winds, a combined VAD initialisation and a cloud-top boundary condition. The resulting dataset provides a complete 3D wind grid with 1 km horizontal and 500 m vertical resolution every 10 minutes over the 3 month field campaign. Validation against two radar wind profilers show the horizontal wind components have RMSE better than 2.4 ms&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;minus;&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt;, with a small bias in the westerly component, u. Statistical comparison to aircraft flight data shows similar distribution, but underestimates the strongest up- and downdrafts, as a result of not resolving the scale of the smallest updrafts. This data provides important dynamical information on convective processes and offers a valuable resource for evaluating and improving convection-resolving models.</p>
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