Abstract: Airplanes have been used to estimate the magnitude and shape of thunderstorm updrafts by assuming that the airplane follows the updraft when the thrust, mass and pitch angle are held constant. This assumption is shown to ...

Abstract: We show that the error variance contributed by random uncorrelated measurement noise can be merged with the error variance contributed by real variations in the atmosphere to obtain a single expression for the total error ...

Abstract: A conically scanning Doppler lidar technique for measuring air motions from an aircraft is proposed in the companion paper (Keeler et al.). A theoretical analysis of this technique shows that, assuming isotropic turbulence, ...

Abstract: We discuss procedures for analyzing dual aircraft formation flights using time-lapse photographs of one aircraft from the other, combined with inertial navigation system position measurements, to estimate the displacement ...

Abstract: Few sensors have perfectly linear dynamic response. Because the atmosphere is inherently turbulent, nonlinear sensor response can lead to errors in measured means. We discuss a technique for estimating this error for both ...

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Abstract: In the 1970s, tremendous progress was made in the physics of atmospheric finescale turbulence. In subsequent decades, effort in this field has languished. Although many scientific and technological problems associated with ...

Abstract: The authors use a 1998 workshop titled "Observations, Experiments, and Large?Eddy Simulation" as a springboard to begin a dialogue on the philosophy of simulation as well as to examine the relationship of large eddy ...

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Abstract: The problems and advantages of the bolometric method of measuring surface temperature from an airplane are discussed. It is shown that the airborne bolometer measures a weighted area-mean temperature which is a function ...