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Old 8th Aug 2014, 23:59
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What is needed or relevant is this (for the AF747) from Tim Vasquez
....which is based solely upon the cloud top temperature.
Also bear in mind that it is usually advised to examine the shapes of the radar returns, not just their colour. The satellite data does just as good a job of showing the shapes as the radar will, quite often a better job as it doesn't suffer from attenuation. For the Vasquez radar scene to be correct you'd need quite a steep radar tilt anyway.

Nevertheless, it's the work of five minutes to come up with something similar for AH5017. When I have some time I'll do that.
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