Information about Wind Gradient
Not to be confused with gradient wind.
This article is about the interaction of horizontal wind with the earth's surface. For a more general treatment of related phenomena, see wind shear.
In common usage, wind gradient, more specifically wind speed gradient[1] or wind velocity gradient,[2] or alternatively shear wind,[3] is the vertical gradient of the mean horizontal wind speed in the lower atmosphere.[4] It is the rate of increase of wind strength with unit increase in height above ground level.[5][5] In metric units, it is often measured in units of meters per second of speed, per kilometer of height (m/s/km), which reduces to the standard unit of shear rate, inverse seconds (s-1).
Simple explanation
The atmospheric effect of surface friction with the winds aloft force the surface wind to slow and turn near the surface of the Earth, blowing inward across isobars, when compared to the winds in the nearly frictionless flow well above the Earth's surface.[6] This layer, where surface friction slows the wind and changes the wind direction, is known as the planetary boundary layer. Daytime solar heating due to insolation thickens the boundary layer as winds at the surface become increasingly mixed with winds aloft. Radiative cooling overnight decouples the winds at the surface from the winds above the boundary layer, increasing vertical wind shear near the surface, also known as wind gradient.Background
- See also: Ekman layer
The reduction in velocity near the surface is a function of surface roughness, so wind velocity profiles are quite different for different terrain types.[8] Rough, irregular ground, and man-made obstructions on the ground, retard movement of the air near the surface, reducing wind velocity.[4][10] Because of low surface roughness on the relatively smooth water surface, wind speeds do not increase as much with height above sea level as they do on land.[11] Over a city or rough terrain, the wind gradient effect could cause a reduction of 40% to 50% of the geostrophic wind speed aloft; while over open water or ice, the reduction may be only 20% to 30%.[12][13]
For engineering purposes, the wind gradient is modeled as a simple shear exhibiting a vertical velocity profile varying according to a power law with a constant exponential coefficient based on surface type. The height above ground where surface friction has a negligible effect on wind speed is called the "gradient height" and the wind speed above this height is assumed to be a constant called the "gradient wind speed".[10][14][15] For example, typical values for the predicted gradient height are 457 m for large cities, 366 m for suburbs, 274 m for open terrain, and 213 m for open sea.[16]
Although the power law exponent approximation is convenient, it has no theoretical basis.[17] When the temperature profile is adiabatic, the wind speed should vary logarithmically with height,[18] Measurements over open terrain in 1961 showed good agreement with the logarithmic fit up to 100 m or so, with near constant average wind speed up through 1000 m.[19]
The shearing of the wind is usually three-dimensional,[20] that is, there is also a change in direction between the 'free' pressure-driven geostrophic wind and the wind close to the ground.[21] This is related to the Ekman spiral effect. The cross-isobar angle of the diverted ageostrophic flow near the surface ranges from 10° over open water, to 30° over rough hilly terrain, and can increase to 40°-50° over land at night when the wind speed is very low.[13]
After sundown the wind gradient near the surface increases, with the increasing stability.[22] Atmospheric stability occurring at night with radiative cooling tends to contain turbulent eddies vertically, increasing the wind gradient.[9] The magnitude of the wind gradient is largely influenced by the height of the convective boundary layer and this effect is even larger over the sea, where there is no diurnal variation of the height of the boundary layer as there is over land.[24] In the convective boundary layer, strong mixing diminishes vertical wind gradient.[25]
Architecture
The design of buildings must account for wind loads, and these are affected by wind gradient. The respective gradient levels, usually assumed in the Building Codes, are 300 meters for cities, 400 meters for suburbs, and 500 m for flat open terrain.[26] For engineering purposes, a power law wind speed profile may be defined as follows:[10][14]
where:
= speed of the wind at height 
= gradient wind at gradient height 
= exponential coefficient
- Further information: Wind Engineering
Wind turbines
Wind turbines are affected by wind gradient. Vertical wind-speed profiles result in different wind speeds at the blades nearest to the ground level compared to those at the top of blade travel, and this in turn affects the turbine operation.[27] The wind gradient can create a large bending moment in the shaft of a two bladed turbine when the blades are vertical.[28] The reduced wind gradient over water means shorter and less expensive wind turbine towers can be used in shallow seas.[11] Wind turbines should be tested in a wind tunnel simulating the wind gradient that they will eventually see, but this is rarely done.[29]For wind turbine engineering, an exponential variation in wind speed with height can be defined relative to wind measured at a reference height of 10 meters as:[27]
where:
= velocity of the wind at height, 
[m/s]
= velocity of the wind at height, 
= 10 meters [m/s]
= Hellman exponent
Gliding
In gliding, wind gradient affects the takeoff and landing phases of flight of a glider. Wind gradient can have a noticeable effect on ground launches. If the wind gradient is significant or sudden, or both, and the pilot maintains the same pitch attitude, the indicated airspeed will increase, possibly exceeding the maximum ground launch tow speed. The pilot must adjust the airspeed to deal with the effect of the gradient.[30]When landing, wind gradient is also a hazard, particularly when the winds are strong.[31] As the glider descends through the wind gradient on final approach to landing, airspeed decreases while sink rate increases, and there is insufficient time to accelerate prior to ground contact. The pilot must anticipate the wind gradient and use a higher approach speed to compensate for it.[32]
Wind gradient is also a hazard for aircraft making steep turns near the ground. It is a particular problem for gliders which have a relatively long wingspan, which exposes them to a greater wind speed difference for a given bank angle. The different airspeed experienced by each wing tip can result in an aerodynamic stall on one wing, causing a loss of control accident.[32][33] The rolling moment generated by the different airflow over each wing can exceed the aileron control authority, causing the glider to continue rolling into a steeper bank angle.[34]
- Further information: Gliding
Sailing
In sailing, wind gradient affects sailboats by presenting a different wind speed to the sail at different heights along the mast. The direction also varies with height, but sailors refer to this as "wind shear."[35] Wind shear presents a different problem to the sailor, because it causes the apparent wind angle to be different when the sailboat is tacking to one side or the other, requiring the sails to be re-trimmed after each tack.[35]The mast head instruments indication of apparent wind speed and direction is different from what the sailor sees and feels near the surface.[35][35] Sailmakers may introduce sail twist in the design of the sail, where the head of the sail is set at a different angle of attack from the foot of the sail in order to change the lift distribution with height. The effect of wind gradient can be factored into the selection of twist in the sail design, but this can be difficult to predict since the wind gradient may vary widely in different weather conditions. Sailors may also adjust the trim of the sail to account for wind gradient, for example using a boom vang.[36]Garrett, Ross (1996). The Symmetry of Sailing. Dobbs Ferry: Sheridan House, pp. 97-99, 108. ISBN 1574090003. “Wind speed and direction are normally measured at the top of the mast, and the wind gradient must therefore be known in order to determine the mean windwind speed incident on the sail.
In kitesurfing, the wind gradient is even more important, because the power kite is flown on 20-30m lines,[38] and the kitesurfer can use the kite to jump off the water, bringing the kite to even greater heights above the sea surface.
Sound propagation
Wind gradient can have a pronounced effect upon sound propagation in the lower atmosphere. This effect is important in understanding sound propagation from distant sources, such as foghorns, thunder, sonic booms, gunshots or other phenomena like mistpouffers. It is also important in studying noise pollution, for example from roadway noise and aircraft noise, and must be considered in the design of noise barriers.[39] When wind speed increases with altitude, wind blowing towards the listener from the source will refract sound waves downwards, resulting in increased noise levels behind the barrier.[40] These effects were first quantified in the field of highway engineering to address variations of noise barrier efficacy in the 1960s.[41]When the sun warms the Earth's surface, there is a negative temperature gradient in atmosphere. The speed of sound decreases with decreasing temperature, so this also creates a negative sound speed gradient.[42] The sound wave front travels faster near the ground, so the sound is refracted upward, away from listeners on the ground, creating an acoustic shadow at some distance from the source.[43] The radius of curvature of the sound path is inversely proportional to the velocity gradient.[44]
A wind speed gradient of 4 (m/s)/km can produce refraction equal to a typical temperature lapse rate of 7.5 °C/km.[45] Higher values of wind gradient will refract sound downward toward the surface in the downwind direction,[46] eliminating the acoustic shadow on the downwind side. This will increase the audibility of sounds downwind. This downwind refraction effect occurs because there is a wind gradient; the sound is not being carried along by the wind.[47]
There will usually be both a wind gradient and a temperature gradient. In that case, the effects of both might add together or subtract depending on the situation and the location of the observer.[48] The wind gradient and the temperature gradient can also have complex interactions. For example, a foghorn can be audible at a place near the source, and a distant place, but not in a sound shadow between them.[49] In the case of transverse sound propagation, wind gradients do not sensibly modify sound propegation relative to the windless condition; the gradient effect appears to be important only in upwind and downwind configurations.[50]
For sound propagation, the exponential variation of wind speed with height can be defined as follows:[40]
where:
= speed of the wind at height 
, and 
is a constant
= exponential coefficient based on ground surface roughness, typically between 0.08 and 0.52
= expected wind gradient at height
In the 1862 American Civil War Battle of Iuka, an acoustic shadow, believed to have been enhanced by a northeast wind, kept two divisions of Union soldiers out of the battle,[51] because they could not hear the sounds of battle only six miles downwind.[52]
Scientists have understood the effect of wind gradient upon refraction of sound since the mid 1900s; however, with the advent of the U.S. Noise Control Act, the application of this refractive phenomena became applied widely beginning in the early 1970s, chiefly in the application to noise propagation from highways and resultant design of transportation facilities.[53]
- Further information: Sound
Wind gradient soaring
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The albatross is an expert in dynamic soaring using the wind gradient.
See also
References
1. ^ Hadlock, Charles (1998). Mathematical Modeling in the Environment. Washington: Mathematical Association of America. ISBN 088385709X. “Thus we have a “wind-speed gradient” as we move vertically, and this has a tendency to encourage mixing between the air at one level and the air at those levels immediately above and below it.
2. ^ Gorder, P.J.; Kaufman, K.; Greif, R. (1996). "Effect of wind gradient on the trajectory synthesis algorithms of the Center-TRACON Automation System (CTAS)". AIAA, Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, San Diego, CA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
3. ^ Sachs, Gottfried (2005-01-10). "Minimum shear wind strength required for dynamic soaring of albatrosses". Ibis 147 (1): pp. 1-10. DOI:10.1111/j.1474-919x.2004.00295.x. “...the shear wind gradient is rather weak....the energy gain...is due to a mechanism other than the wind gradient effect.
4. ^ Oke, T. (1987). Boundary Layer Climates. London: Methuen, p. 54. ISBN 0415043190. “Therefore the vertical gradient of mean wind speed (dū/dz) is greatest over smooth terrain, and least over rough surfaces.
5. ^ Crocker, David (2000). Dictionary of Aeronautical English. New York: Routledge, p. 104. ISBN 157958201X. “wind gradient = rate of increase of wind strength with unit increase in height above ground level;
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7. ^ Wizelius, Tore (2007). Developing Wind Power Projects. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd, p. 40. ISBN 1844072622. “The relation between wind speed and height is called the wind profile or wind gradient.
8. ^ Brown, G. (2001). Sun, Wind & Light. New York: Wiley, p. 18. ISBN 0471348775.
9. ^ Dalgliesh, W. A. and D. W. Boyd (1962-04-01). "CBD-28. Wind on Buildings". “Flow near the surface encounters small obstacles that change the wind speed and introduce random vertical and horizontal velocity components at right angles to the main direction of flow.
10. ^ Crawley, Stanley (1993). Steel Buildings. New York: Wiley, p. 272. ISBN 0471842982.
11. ^ Lubosny, Zbigniew (2003). Wind Turbine Operation in Electric Power Systems: Advanced Modeling. Berlin: Springer, p. 17. ISBN 354040340X.
12. ^ Harrison, Roy (1999). Understanding Our Environment. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, p. 11. ISBN 0854045848.
13. ^ Thompson, Russell (1998). Atmospheric Processes and Systems. New York: Routledge, pp. 102-103. ISBN 0415171458.
14. ^ Gupta, Ajaya (1993). Guidelines for Design of Low-Rise Buildings Subjected to Lateral Forces. Boca Raton: CRC Press, p. 49. ISBN 0849389690.
15. ^ Stoltman, Joseph (2005). International Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Occurrence, Mitigation, and Consequences. Berlin: Springer, 73. ISBN 1402028504.
16. ^ Chen, Wai-Fah (1997). Handbook of Structural Engineering. Boca Raton: CRC Press, p. 12-50. ISBN 0849326745.
17. ^ Ghosal, M. (2005). "7.8.5 Vertical Wind Speed Gradient", Renewable Energy Resources. City: Alpha Science International, Ltd, pp. 378-379. ISBN 9781842651254.
18. ^ Stull, Roland (1997). An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 442. ISBN 9027727686. “...both the wind gradient and the mean wind profile itself can usually be described diagnostically by the log wind profile.
19. ^ Thuillier, R.H.; Lappe, U.O. (1964). "Wind and Temperature Profile Characteristics from Observations on a 1400 ft Tower". Journal of Applied Meteorology 3 (3): 299-306. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1964)003<. Retrieved on 2007-06-10.
20. ^ Mcilveen, J. (1992). Fundamentals of Weather and Climate. London: Chapman & Hall, p. 184. ISBN 0412411601.
21. ^ Burton, Tony (2001). Wind Energy Handbook. London: J. Wiley, p. 20. ISBN 0471489972.
22. ^ Köpp, F.; Schwiesow, R.L.; Werner, C. (01 1984). "Remote Measurements of Boundary-Layer Wind Profiles Using a CW Doppler Lidar". Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 23 (1): p. 153. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1984)023<. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
23. ^ Lal, R. (2005). Encyclopedia of Soil Science. New York: Marcel Dekker, p. 618. ISBN 0849350530.
24. ^ Johansson, C.; Uppsala, S.; Smedman, A.S. (2002). "Does the height of the boundary layer influence the turbulence structure near the surface over the Baltic Sea?". 15th Conference on Boundary Layer and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society.
25. ^ Shao, Yaping (2000). Physics and Modelling of Wind Erosion. City: Kluwer Academic, p. 69. ISBN 9780792366577.
26. ^ Augusti, Giuliano (1984). Probabilistic Methods in Structural Engineering. London: Chapman and Hall, p. 85. ISBN 0412222302.
27. ^ Heier, Siegfried (2005). Grid Integration of Wind Energy Conversion Systems. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, p. 45. ISBN 0470868996.
28. ^ Harrison, Robert (2001). Large Wind Turbines. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, p. 30. ISBN 0471494569.
29. ^ Barlow, Jewel (1999). Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Testing. New York: Wiley, p. 42. ISBN 0471557749. “It would be preferable to evaluate windmills in the wind gradient that they will eventually see, but this is rarely done.
30. ^ (2003) Glider Flying Handbook. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, p. 7-16. FAA-8083-13_GFH.
31. ^ Longland, Steven (2001). Gliding. City: Crowood Press, Limited, The, p. 125. ISBN 1861264143. “The reason for making the increase is because the wind speed increases with height (a `wind gradient')
32. ^ Piggott, Derek (1997). Gliding: a Handbook on Soaring Flight. Knauff & Grove, pp. 85-86, 130-132. ISBN 9780960567645. “The wind gradient is said to be steep or pronounced when the change in wind speed with height is very rapid, and it is in these conditions that extra care must be used when taking off or landing in a glider
33. ^ Knauff, Thomas (1984). Glider Basics from First Flight to Solo. Thomas Knauff. ISBN 0960567631.
34. ^ Conway, Carle (1989). Joy of Soaring. City: Soaring Society of America, Incorporated. ISBN 1883813026 If the pilot runs into the wind gradient as he is turning into the wind, it is easy to see that there will be less wind across the lower than the higher wing..
35. ^ Jobson, Gary (2004). Gary Jobson's Championship Sailing. City: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, p. 180. ISBN 0071423818. “Wind shear is the difference in direction at varying heights above the water; wind gradient is the difference in wind strength at varying heights above the water.
36. ^ Jobson, Gary (1990). Championship Tactics: How Anyone Can Sail Faster, Smarter, and Win Races. New York: St. Martin's Press, p. 323. ISBN 0312042787. “You'll recognize wind shear if your apparent wind angle is smaller on one tack than on the other...
38. ^ Currer, Ian (2002). Kitesurfing. City: Lakes Paragliding, 27. ISBN 0954289609.
39. ^ Foss, Rene N. (June 1978). "Ground Plane Wind Shear Interaction on Acoustic Transmission". WA-RD 033.1. Washington State Department of Transportation.. Retrieved on 2007-05-30.
40. ^ Bies, David (2003). Engineering Noise Control; Theory and Practice. London: Spon Press, p. 235. ISBN 0415267137. “As wind speed generally increases with altitude, wind blowing towards the listener from the source will refract sound waves downwards, resulting in increased noise levels.
41. ^ C.Michael Hogan, Analysis of Highway Noise, Journal of Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, Vol. 2, No. 3, Biomedical and Life Sciences and Earth and Environmental Science Issue, Pages 387-392, September 1973, Springer Verlag, Netherlands ISSN 0049-6979
42. ^ Ahnert, Wolfgang (1999). Sound Reinforcement Engineering. Taylor & Francis, p. 40.
43. ^ Everest, F. (2001). The Master Handbook of Acoustics. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 262-263. ISBN 0071360972.
44. ^ Lamancusa, J. S. (2000). "10. Outdoor sound propagation", Noise Control (pdf), ME 458: Engineering Noise Control, Penn State University, pp. 10.6-10.7.
45. ^ Uman, Martin (1984). Lightning. New York: Dover Publications, 196. ISBN 0486645754.
46. ^ Volland, Hans (1995). Handbook of Atmospheric Electrodynamics. Boca Raton: CRC Press, p. 22. ISBN 0849386470.
47. ^ Singal, S. (2005). Noise Pollution and Control Strategy. Alpha Science International, Ltd, p. 7. ISBN 1842652370. “It may be seen that refraction effects occur only because there is a wind gradient and it is not due to the result of sound being convected along by the wind.
48. ^ (2002-12-19) N01-N07 Sound Ranging, Basic Science & Technology Section. Royal School Of Artillery, p. N-12. “...there will usually be both a wind gradient and a temperature gradient.
49. ^ Mallock, A. (1914-11-02). "Fog Signals: Areas of Silence and Greatest Range of Sound". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character Vol. 91: pp. 71-75.
50. ^ Malbequi, P.; Delrieux, Y.; Canard-caruana, S. (1993). "Wind tunnel study of 3D sound propagation in presence of a hill and of a wind gradient". ONERA, TP no 111: p. 5. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
51. ^ Cornwall, Sir (1996). Grant as Military Commander. Barnes & Noble Inc. ISBN 1566199131 pages = p. 92.
52. ^ Cozzens, Peter (2006). The Darkest Days of the War: the Battles of Iuka and Corinth. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807857831.
53. ^ Hogan, C. Michael and Gary L. Latshaw, "The Relationship between Highway Planning and Urban Noise", Proceedings of the ASCE, Urban Transportation Division specialty conference, May 21/23, 1973, Chicago, Ill., American Society of Civil Engineers
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55. ^ Alerstam, Thomas (1990). Bird Migration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 275. ISBN 0521448220.
2. ^ Gorder, P.J.; Kaufman, K.; Greif, R. (1996). "Effect of wind gradient on the trajectory synthesis algorithms of the Center-TRACON Automation System (CTAS)". AIAA, Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, San Diego, CA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
3. ^ Sachs, Gottfried (2005-01-10). "Minimum shear wind strength required for dynamic soaring of albatrosses". Ibis 147 (1): pp. 1-10. DOI:10.1111/j.1474-919x.2004.00295.x. “...the shear wind gradient is rather weak....the energy gain...is due to a mechanism other than the wind gradient effect.
4. ^ Oke, T. (1987). Boundary Layer Climates. London: Methuen, p. 54. ISBN 0415043190. “Therefore the vertical gradient of mean wind speed (dū/dz) is greatest over smooth terrain, and least over rough surfaces.
5. ^ Crocker, David (2000). Dictionary of Aeronautical English. New York: Routledge, p. 104. ISBN 157958201X. “wind gradient = rate of increase of wind strength with unit increase in height above ground level;
6. ^ AMS Glossary of Meteorology, Section E. American Meterological Association. Retrieved on 2007-06-03.
7. ^ Wizelius, Tore (2007). Developing Wind Power Projects. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd, p. 40. ISBN 1844072622. “The relation between wind speed and height is called the wind profile or wind gradient.
8. ^ Brown, G. (2001). Sun, Wind & Light. New York: Wiley, p. 18. ISBN 0471348775.
9. ^ Dalgliesh, W. A. and D. W. Boyd (1962-04-01). "CBD-28. Wind on Buildings". “Flow near the surface encounters small obstacles that change the wind speed and introduce random vertical and horizontal velocity components at right angles to the main direction of flow.
10. ^ Crawley, Stanley (1993). Steel Buildings. New York: Wiley, p. 272. ISBN 0471842982.
11. ^ Lubosny, Zbigniew (2003). Wind Turbine Operation in Electric Power Systems: Advanced Modeling. Berlin: Springer, p. 17. ISBN 354040340X.
12. ^ Harrison, Roy (1999). Understanding Our Environment. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry, p. 11. ISBN 0854045848.
13. ^ Thompson, Russell (1998). Atmospheric Processes and Systems. New York: Routledge, pp. 102-103. ISBN 0415171458.
14. ^ Gupta, Ajaya (1993). Guidelines for Design of Low-Rise Buildings Subjected to Lateral Forces. Boca Raton: CRC Press, p. 49. ISBN 0849389690.
15. ^ Stoltman, Joseph (2005). International Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Occurrence, Mitigation, and Consequences. Berlin: Springer, 73. ISBN 1402028504.
16. ^ Chen, Wai-Fah (1997). Handbook of Structural Engineering. Boca Raton: CRC Press, p. 12-50. ISBN 0849326745.
17. ^ Ghosal, M. (2005). "7.8.5 Vertical Wind Speed Gradient", Renewable Energy Resources. City: Alpha Science International, Ltd, pp. 378-379. ISBN 9781842651254.
18. ^ Stull, Roland (1997). An Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 442. ISBN 9027727686. “...both the wind gradient and the mean wind profile itself can usually be described diagnostically by the log wind profile.
19. ^ Thuillier, R.H.; Lappe, U.O. (1964). "Wind and Temperature Profile Characteristics from Observations on a 1400 ft Tower". Journal of Applied Meteorology 3 (3): 299-306. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1964)003<. Retrieved on 2007-06-10.
20. ^ Mcilveen, J. (1992). Fundamentals of Weather and Climate. London: Chapman & Hall, p. 184. ISBN 0412411601.
21. ^ Burton, Tony (2001). Wind Energy Handbook. London: J. Wiley, p. 20. ISBN 0471489972.
22. ^ Köpp, F.; Schwiesow, R.L.; Werner, C. (01 1984). "Remote Measurements of Boundary-Layer Wind Profiles Using a CW Doppler Lidar". Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 23 (1): p. 153. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1984)023<. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
23. ^ Lal, R. (2005). Encyclopedia of Soil Science. New York: Marcel Dekker, p. 618. ISBN 0849350530.
24. ^ Johansson, C.; Uppsala, S.; Smedman, A.S. (2002). "Does the height of the boundary layer influence the turbulence structure near the surface over the Baltic Sea?". 15th Conference on Boundary Layer and Turbulence, American Meteorological Society.
25. ^ Shao, Yaping (2000). Physics and Modelling of Wind Erosion. City: Kluwer Academic, p. 69. ISBN 9780792366577.
26. ^ Augusti, Giuliano (1984). Probabilistic Methods in Structural Engineering. London: Chapman and Hall, p. 85. ISBN 0412222302.
27. ^ Heier, Siegfried (2005). Grid Integration of Wind Energy Conversion Systems. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, p. 45. ISBN 0470868996.
28. ^ Harrison, Robert (2001). Large Wind Turbines. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, p. 30. ISBN 0471494569.
29. ^ Barlow, Jewel (1999). Low-Speed Wind Tunnel Testing. New York: Wiley, p. 42. ISBN 0471557749. “It would be preferable to evaluate windmills in the wind gradient that they will eventually see, but this is rarely done.
30. ^ (2003) Glider Flying Handbook. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C.: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, p. 7-16. FAA-8083-13_GFH.
31. ^ Longland, Steven (2001). Gliding. City: Crowood Press, Limited, The, p. 125. ISBN 1861264143. “The reason for making the increase is because the wind speed increases with height (a `wind gradient')
32. ^ Piggott, Derek (1997). Gliding: a Handbook on Soaring Flight. Knauff & Grove, pp. 85-86, 130-132. ISBN 9780960567645. “The wind gradient is said to be steep or pronounced when the change in wind speed with height is very rapid, and it is in these conditions that extra care must be used when taking off or landing in a glider
33. ^ Knauff, Thomas (1984). Glider Basics from First Flight to Solo. Thomas Knauff. ISBN 0960567631.
34. ^ Conway, Carle (1989). Joy of Soaring. City: Soaring Society of America, Incorporated. ISBN 1883813026 If the pilot runs into the wind gradient as he is turning into the wind, it is easy to see that there will be less wind across the lower than the higher wing..
35. ^ Jobson, Gary (2004). Gary Jobson's Championship Sailing. City: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, p. 180. ISBN 0071423818. “Wind shear is the difference in direction at varying heights above the water; wind gradient is the difference in wind strength at varying heights above the water.
36. ^ Jobson, Gary (1990). Championship Tactics: How Anyone Can Sail Faster, Smarter, and Win Races. New York: St. Martin's Press, p. 323. ISBN 0312042787. “You'll recognize wind shear if your apparent wind angle is smaller on one tack than on the other...
38. ^ Currer, Ian (2002). Kitesurfing. City: Lakes Paragliding, 27. ISBN 0954289609.
39. ^ Foss, Rene N. (June 1978). "Ground Plane Wind Shear Interaction on Acoustic Transmission". WA-RD 033.1. Washington State Department of Transportation.. Retrieved on 2007-05-30.
40. ^ Bies, David (2003). Engineering Noise Control; Theory and Practice. London: Spon Press, p. 235. ISBN 0415267137. “As wind speed generally increases with altitude, wind blowing towards the listener from the source will refract sound waves downwards, resulting in increased noise levels.
41. ^ C.Michael Hogan, Analysis of Highway Noise, Journal of Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, Vol. 2, No. 3, Biomedical and Life Sciences and Earth and Environmental Science Issue, Pages 387-392, September 1973, Springer Verlag, Netherlands ISSN 0049-6979
42. ^ Ahnert, Wolfgang (1999). Sound Reinforcement Engineering. Taylor & Francis, p. 40.
43. ^ Everest, F. (2001). The Master Handbook of Acoustics. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 262-263. ISBN 0071360972.
44. ^ Lamancusa, J. S. (2000). "10. Outdoor sound propagation", Noise Control (pdf), ME 458: Engineering Noise Control, Penn State University, pp. 10.6-10.7.
45. ^ Uman, Martin (1984). Lightning. New York: Dover Publications, 196. ISBN 0486645754.
46. ^ Volland, Hans (1995). Handbook of Atmospheric Electrodynamics. Boca Raton: CRC Press, p. 22. ISBN 0849386470.
47. ^ Singal, S. (2005). Noise Pollution and Control Strategy. Alpha Science International, Ltd, p. 7. ISBN 1842652370. “It may be seen that refraction effects occur only because there is a wind gradient and it is not due to the result of sound being convected along by the wind.
48. ^ (2002-12-19) N01-N07 Sound Ranging, Basic Science & Technology Section. Royal School Of Artillery, p. N-12. “...there will usually be both a wind gradient and a temperature gradient.
49. ^ Mallock, A. (1914-11-02). "Fog Signals: Areas of Silence and Greatest Range of Sound". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character Vol. 91: pp. 71-75.
50. ^ Malbequi, P.; Delrieux, Y.; Canard-caruana, S. (1993). "Wind tunnel study of 3D sound propagation in presence of a hill and of a wind gradient". ONERA, TP no 111: p. 5. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
51. ^ Cornwall, Sir (1996). Grant as Military Commander. Barnes & Noble Inc. ISBN 1566199131 pages = p. 92.
52. ^ Cozzens, Peter (2006). The Darkest Days of the War: the Battles of Iuka and Corinth. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807857831.
53. ^ Hogan, C. Michael and Gary L. Latshaw, "The Relationship between Highway Planning and Urban Noise", Proceedings of the ASCE, Urban Transportation Division specialty conference, May 21/23, 1973, Chicago, Ill., American Society of Civil Engineers
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In Atmospheric Science, Balanced Flow is an idealization of atmospheric motion when forces acting on a parcel are balanced. Idealized, steady state Balanced flow is often an accurate approximation, and is useful in improving qualitative understanding of atmospheric motion.
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Wind shear, sometimes referred to as windshear or wind gradient, is a difference in wind speed and/or direction over a relatively short distance in the atmosphere. Wind shear can be broken down into vertical and horizontal components, with horizontal wind shear seen across
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gradient of a scalar field is a vector field which points in the direction of the greatest rate of increase of the scalar field, and whose magnitude is the greatest rate of change.
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WIND (SOLARWIND) was a NASA spacecraft launched on November 1, 1994. It was deployed to study radio and plasma that occur in solar wind, in the Earth's magnetosphere. The spacecraft's original mission was to orbit the Sun at the L1
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Earth's atmosphere is a layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth and retained by the Earth's gravity. It contains roughly (by molar content/volume) 78% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.
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Shear rate is a measure of the rate of shear deformation:
For the simple shear case, it is just a gradient of velocity in a flowing material. The SI unit of measurement for shear rate is sec-1, expressed as "reciprocal seconds" or "inverse seconds.
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For the simple shear case, it is just a gradient of velocity in a flowing material. The SI unit of measurement for shear rate is sec-1, expressed as "reciprocal seconds" or "inverse seconds.
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WIND (SOLARWIND) was a NASA spacecraft launched on November 1, 1994. It was deployed to study radio and plasma that occur in solar wind, in the Earth's magnetosphere. The spacecraft's original mission was to orbit the Sun at the L1
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EARTH was a short-lived Japanese vocal trio which released 6 singles and 1 album between 2000 and 2001. Their greatest hit, their debut single "time after time", peaked at #13 in the Oricon singles chart.
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Insolation (from INcoming SOLar radiATION) is a measure of solar energy received on a given surface area in a given time. It is commonly expressed in kilowatt-hours per square meter per day (kW•h/m²/day).
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Ekman layer.
In addition to enforcing the zero velocity condition at the wall, these Ekman layers can also control long-range properties of the flow. A classical illustration is given by the everyday experience of how a cup of tea returns to rest after stirring.
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In addition to enforcing the zero velocity condition at the wall, these Ekman layers can also control long-range properties of the flow. A classical illustration is given by the everyday experience of how a cup of tea returns to rest after stirring.
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Aerodynamics (shaping of objects that affect the flow of air or gas) is a branch of fluid dynamics concerned with the study of forces generated on a body in a flow.
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drag (sometimes called resistance) is the force that resists the movement of a solid object through a fluid (a liquid or gas). Drag is made up of friction forces, which act in a direction parallel to the object's surface (primarily along its sides, as friction forces at the
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The surface layer is the layer of a turbulent fluid most affected by interaction with a solid surface or the surface separating a gas and a liquid. In surface layers the characteristics of the turbulence depend on distance from the interface.
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The planetary boundary layer (PBL), also known as the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) or peplosphere, is the lowest part of the atmosphere and its behavior is directly influenced by its contact with a planetary surface.
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In fluid dynamics, the no-slip condition states that at a boundary, fluids have zero velocity relative to the boundary.
The fluid velocity at all liquid–solid boundaries is equal to that of the solid boundary.
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The fluid velocity at all liquid–solid boundaries is equal to that of the solid boundary.
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turbulence or turbulent flow is a flow regime characterized by chaotic, stochastic property changes. This includes low momentum diffusion, high momentum convection, and rapid variation of pressure and velocity in space and time.
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In physics, a dynamical system is said to be mixing if the phase space of the system becomes strongly intertwined, according to at least one of several mathematical definitions.
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Pollution is the introduction of pollutants (whether chemical substances, or energy such as noise, heat, or light) into the environment to such a point that its effects become harmful to human health, other living organisms, or the environment.
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Erosion is displacement of solids (soil, mud, rock and other particles) usually by the agents of currents such as, wind, water, or ice by downward or down-slope movement in response to gravity or by living organisms (in the case of bioerosion).
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The geostrophic wind is the theoretical wind that would result from an exact balance between the Coriolis force and the pressure gradient force. This condition is called geostrophic balance.
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Engineering is the applied science of acquiring and applying knowledge to design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development, also known as ECPD,[1] (later ABET [2]
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Simple shear is a special case of deformation of a fluid where only one component of velocity vectors has a non-zero value:
And the gradient of velocity is perpendicular to it:
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where is the shear rate and:
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And the gradient of velocity is perpendicular to it:
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where is the shear rate and:
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A power law is any polynomial relationship that exhibits the property of scale invariance. The most common power laws relate two variables and have the form
where and are constants, and is of .
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where and are constants, and is of .
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Exponentiation is a mathematical operation, written an, involving two numbers, the base a and the exponent n.
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logarithm (to base b) of a number x is the exponent y that satisfies x = by. It is written logb(x) or, if the base is implicit, as log(x).
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Shearing in continuum mechanics refers to the occurrence of a shear strain, which is a deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another. It is induced by a shear stress in the material.
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Ekman spiral refers to a structure of currents or winds near a horizontal boundary in which the flow direction rotates as one moves away from the boundary. It derives its name from the Swedish oceanographer Vagn Ekman.
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Radiative cooling is the condition in which a body loses more energy by radiation than it gains from its surroundings.
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Meteorological effects
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Wind engineering is a field of engineering devoted to the analysis of wind effects on the natural and built environment. It includes strong winds which may cause discomfort as well as extreme winds such as tornadoes, hurricanes and storms which may cause widespread destruction.
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wind turbine is a machine that converts the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used directly by machinery, such as a pump or grinding stones, the machine is usually called a windmill.
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