Simultaneous Measurements of Clear Air Turbulence at the Tropopause by High-power Radar and Instrumented Aircraft
- 1 December 1970
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 228 (5276), 1065-1067
- https://doi.org/10.1038/2281065a0
Abstract
Large amplitude Kelvin-Helmholtz billows observed by radar at a height of almost 11 km are shown to have been associated with clear air turbulence which produced a vertical aircraft acceleration of 0.65g.Keywords
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