Improvements to an operational clear-air turbulence diagnostic index by addition of a divergence trend term

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 789-798

  Ellrod, Gary P ^a   Knox, John A ^b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Operational forecasting; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ALTITUDE RANGE; ANTICYCLONIC FLOW; CLEAR-AIR TURBULENCES; CYCLONIC REGIONS; DIAGNOSTIC INDICES; MODIFIED INDICES; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; PILOT REPORTS; PREDICTION MODEL; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; RAPID UPDATE CYCLES;

FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TENSORS;

TURBULENCE;

AIRCRAFT; ANTICYCLONE; DATABASE; GRAVITY WAVE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 77955540882     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222290.1     Document Type: Article

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