Microbursts
Beginning of paper
The extent to which wind shear presents a hazard to aircraft has
been well documented in the last ten years. Since some wind shear can
occur in otherwise relatively good weather, the most hazardous kind, a
microburst, is associated with rain showers and thunderstorms even thought
the parent storm ....
Middle of paper
.... are associated with critical wind shears. However, there are two
types of down drafts that are particularly hazardous to flight operations
because of there severity and small size. Professor T. Fulita, an
atmospheric scientist from the University of Chicago, coined the term
downburst for a concentrated, sever downdraft that induces an outward burst
of damaging winds at the ground. He also introduced the term microburst for
a downburst with horizontal dimensions of 4km or l ....
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