Vertical air motion and turbulence parameters from commercial aircraft
Abstract
The possibility of computing vertical air motion using data from wide-bodied commercial aircraft is discussed. The main problem is the quantization of the data originating in the aircraft integrated data system. Vertical winds with a low resolution (0.15 Hz) are computed which permit, e.g., the evaluation of lee waves. Higher frequency vertical motion is computed using the aircraft's vertical acceleration data.
- Publication:
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In WMO Proceedings of the Conference on the Scientific Results of the Alpine Experiment (ALPEX
- Pub Date:
- July 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986srae....1...95G
- Keywords:
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- Air Masses;
- Airline Operations;
- Atmospheric Turbulence;
- Flow Measurement;
- Meteorological Flight;
- Vertical Motion;
- Air Data Systems;
- Wind Measurement;
- Wind Profiles;
- Geophysics