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  2. Wind gradient - Wikipedia

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    A wind speed gradient of 4 (m/s)/km can produce refraction equal to a typical temperature lapse rate of 7.5 °C/km. [51] Higher values of wind gradient will refract sound downward toward the surface in the downwind direction, [52] eliminating the acoustic shadow on the downwind side. This will increase the audibility of sounds downwind.

  3. Speed of sound - Wikipedia

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    T 25 is 298.15 K (= 25 °C = 77 °F), giving a value of 346.1 m/s (= 1 135.6 ft/s = 1246 km/h = 774.3 mph = 672.8 kn). In fact, assuming an ideal gas , the speed of sound c depends on temperature and composition only, not on the pressure or density (since these change in lockstep for a given temperature and cancel out).

  4. Wind speed - Wikipedia

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    The fastest wind speed not related to tornadoes ever recorded was during the passage of Tropical Cyclone Olivia on 10 April 1996: an automatic weather station on Barrow Island, Australia, registered a maximum wind gust of 113.3 m/s (408 km/h; 253 mph; 220.2 kn; 372 ft/s) [6] [7] The wind gust was evaluated by the WMO Evaluation Panel, who found ...

  5. Airspeed - Wikipedia

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    Airspeed is commonly given in knots (kn). Since 2010, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recommends using kilometers per hour (km/h) for airspeed (and meters per second for wind speed on runways), but allows using the de facto standard of knots, and has no set date on when to stop.

  6. Template:Convert/list of units/speed - Wikipedia

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    1.0 m/s (3.3 ft/s) m/s ft/s (m/s foot/s) non-SI metric: kilometre per hour: km/h km/h US spelling: kilometer per hour: 1.0 km/h (0.62 mph) km/h mph; Imperial & US customary: mile per hour: mph mph 1.0 mph (1.6 km/h) mph km/h; mile per second: mi/s mi/s 1.0 mi/s (1.6 km/s) mi/s km/s; foot per second: ft/s (foot/s) ft/s long code "foot/s" outputs ...

  7. Roughness length - Wikipedia

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    Roughness length is a parameter of some vertical wind profile equations that model the horizontal mean wind speed near the ground. In the log wind profile, it is equivalent to the height at which the wind speed theoretically becomes zero in the absence of wind-slowing obstacles and under neutral conditions. In reality, the wind at this height ...

  8. Template:Speed conversions - Wikipedia

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    Conversions between common units of speed; m/s km/h mph (mi/h) knot fps (ft/s) 1 m/s = : 1: 3.600 000: 2.236 936 *: 1.943 844 *: 3.280 840 * : 1 km/h = : 0.277 778 *: 1: 0.621 371 *: 0.539 957 *: 0.911 344 * : 1 mph (mi/h) =

  9. Wind gust - Wikipedia

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    Wind gust speeds during Storm Abigail in November 2015 Sound of wind blowing in a pine forest at around 25 m/sec, with gust alterations. A wind gust or just gust is a brief, sudden increase in the wind speed. It usually lasts for less than 20 seconds, briefer than a squall, which lasts minutes.