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Archive: Tue Sep 2011

Detecting turbulence from Satellites

Clear Air Turbulence can be a significant aircraft hazard, occasionally causing injuries and long delays. (See, for example, here and here for two recent examples. The second example resulted in a 6-hour delay (Link))At the upper-tropospheric boundary between air masses, vertical shearing at the jet stream combined with the ageostrophic... Read More