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A data set on wind shear, consisting of 24 frequency distributions of changes in headwind speed experienced by aircraft during landing phase, is modelled parsimoniously by means of the hyperbolic distribution.
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Barndorff-Nielsen, O.E., Jensen, J.L. & Sørensen, M. Wind shear and hyperbolic distributions. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 49, 417–431 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00123653
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