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In common usage, wind gradient, more specifically wind speed gradient [1] or wind velocity gradient, [2] or alternatively shear wind, [3] is the vertical component of the 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.
An anemometer is commonly used to measure wind speed. Global distribution of wind speed at 10m above ground averaged over the years 1981–2010 from the CHELSA-BIOCLIM+ data set [1] In meteorology, wind speed, or wind flow speed, is a fundamental atmospheric quantity caused by air moving from high to low pressure, usually due to changes in ...
Wind speed on the Beaufort scale is based on the empirical relationship: [6] v = 0.836 B 3/2 m/s; v = 1.625 B 3/2 knots (=) where v is the equivalent wind speed at 10 metres above the sea surface and B is Beaufort scale number.
Horizontal wind shear is a change in wind speed with a change in lateral position for a given altitude. [1] Wind shear is a microscale meteorological phenomenon occurring over a very small distance, but it can be associated with mesoscale or synoptic scale weather features such as squall lines and
Conditions necessary for a fully developed sea at given wind speeds, and the parameters of the resulting waves Wind conditions Wave size Wind speed in one direction Fetch Wind duration Average height Average wavelength Average period and speed 19 km/h (12 mph) 19 km (12 mi) 2 hr: 0.27 m (0.89 ft) 8.5 m (28 ft) 3.0 sec, 10.2 km/h (9.3 ft/sec)
The wind speeds may have been accelerated by climate change. Citing a recent study, meteorologist Jeff Beradelli said that for every 1°C increase in air temperatures, there could be a 2 per cent ...
Federal traffic investigators said Thursday that unsafe driving speeds of multiple vehicles on wet roads in low visibility was the probable cause of a fiery 2021 interstate crash in Alabama that ...
Roughness length is a parameter used in modeling the horizontal mean wind speed near the ground. In wind vertical profile such the log wind profile, the roughness length (with dimension of length and SI unit of metres) is equivalent to the height at which the wind speed theoretically becomes zero in the absence of wind-slowing obstacles and ...