An Analysis of a Severe Turbulence Event Encountered by an Aircraft over the South China Sea and the Application of Numerical Weather Prediction Models in the Early Alerting of the Event

In the literature, there is rather limited number of accounts of significant turbulence over the South China Sea, which is an area of busy air traffic. The present paper documents the meteorological observations of an aircraft over the seas west of the Philippines on encountering severe turbulence a...

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Main Authors: P. W. Chan, W. K. Wong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Advances in Meteorology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/834579