Links And Resources
Resources related to mountain waves:
- Mountain and lee waves in satellite imagery by Dr. Brad Muller:
http://wx.db.erau.edu/faculty/mullerb/Wx365/Mountain_waves/mountain_waves.html - Detection of mountain waves over Spain and the Balearic Islands in the WV7.3 channel of MSG:
http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Images/ImageLibrary/DAT_IL_04_12_28.html - Rotor clouds (Youtube) by Steve Zimmermann:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juGLWnvJaQc - Untersuchung von gebirgswellen durch Auswertung von Segelflug- und Radiosondendaten, Master Thesis Bernhard Forstner, 2000:
http://www.streckenflug.at/gebirgswellen/ - WMO, 1978: Handbook of Meteorological Forecasting for Soaring Flights, WMO Technical Note Nr. 158
- SCORER R.S., 1951: Forecasting the Occurence of Lee Waves. Weather, 6, 99 - 103
- SCORER R.S., 1953: Forecasting Mountain Lee Waves. Met. Mag., 82, 232 - 234
- N. L. UHLENBROCK, K. M. BEDKA, W. F. FELTZ, AND S. A. ACKERMAN: Mountain Wave Signatures in MODIS 6.7-μm Imagery and Their Relation to Pilot Reports of Turbulence, Weather and Forecasting, Vol.22, pp. 662-670.
Resources related to gravity waves:
- Making Waves in the Sky off of Africa:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=88296 - Wave Clouds off West Africa:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8139&eocn=image&eoci=related_image - Wave Clouds over the Arabian Sea:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7758&eocn=image&eoci=related_image - Sharp Line in the Clouds:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80545&eocn=image&eoci=related_image - Multiple strong, rapid convection developed on the collision points of two convective outflow boundaries, on 19 January:
https://www.eumetsat.int/convective-outflow-boundary-over-botswana - Severe hailstorm in Northern Italy:
https://www.eumetsat.int/severe-hailstorm-northern-italy - Gravity Waves Make Tornadoes:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/19mar_grits/
Resources related to shear waves:
- Super Typhoon Nepartak reached winds of 270 km/h when it was seen by Himawari-8 on 6 July:
https://www.eumetsat.int/himawari-8-has-its-eye-typhoon-nepartak - Himawari-8 has its eye on Typhoon Nepartak:
https://www.eumetsat.int/himawari-8-has-its-eye-typhoon-nepartak - Transverse cirrus bands: a satellite signature of potential turbulence:
https://www.eumetsat.int/transverse-cirrus-bands
Resources related to KH waves:
- Kelvin-Helmholtz-Wellen (in German):
http://www.wetteran.de/newsblog/58-khw - Kelvin-Helmholtz-Wellen by Dieter Etling (in German):
http://www.schwerewelle.de/literatur/etling-dieter-kelvin-helmholtz-wellen-mitteilungen-der-deutschen-meteorologischen-gesellschaft-2-2014-s-2-4 - Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilität - Praktikumsunterlagen (in German):
http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/Praktika/Fortgeschrittenen/Versuche/V254/kelvin.pdf
Miscellaneous:
- Forecasting Clear Air Turbulence for Aviation:
https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=1138#.V-4J5U0grcs - Microbursts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst - BOAC Flight 911
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_911