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Determination of Wind Shear and Turbulence Intensity According to Yak42-D “Roshydromet” Research Aircraft Data

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The results of the development and comparative analysis of methods for determining wind shear in the atmosphere (regression and difference ones) based on research aircraft data are presented. It is shown that shear calculation by the regression method gives the error of 0.002–0.006 (m/s)/km (depending on the length of the measurement sections) for horizontal shears and 0.04–0.12 (m/s)/100 m for vertical shears; the respective error of the difference method is 0.007 (m/s)/km and 0.07 (m/s)/100 m. Based on the Yak-42D “Roshydromet” research aircraft data, the values of shears of two horizontal components of wind speed in three directions (two horizontal and vertical) were calculated. According to the data of two research aircraft flights, the maximum values of the horizontal shear of wind speed components were reached above the boundary layer and were equal to 0.2 (m/s)/km, and the vertical shear was 1.2 (m/s)/100 m. The energy profiles of horizontal and vertical turbulent pulsations are constructed, it is shown that intense turbulence smooths wind shears in the convective atmospheric boundary layer.

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  2. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141700, Dolgoprudny, Moscow oblast, Russia

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Translated from Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya, 2021, No. 9, pp. 117-129. https://doi.org/10.52002/0130-2906-2021-9-117-129.

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Volkov, V.V., Strunin, M.A. & Strunin, A.M. Determination of Wind Shear and Turbulence Intensity According to Yak42-D “Roshydromet” Research Aircraft Data. Russ. Meteorol. Hydrol. 46, 640–649 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373921090107

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