{"id":17518,"date":"2024-11-30T09:02:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T10:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17518"},"modified":"2024-11-30T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T10:24:03","slug":"air-turbulence-from-a-storm-can-start-earlier-than-you-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17518","title":{"rendered":"Air Turbulence From a Storm Can Start Earlier Than You Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is your captain speaking: You may need to buckle those seatbelts a lot sooner than you\u2019re used to.<\/p>\n

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Rattled nerves and spilled drinks are the most common outcomes of a choppy flight, but intense air turbulence can also cause bodily harm<\/a>. And while one well-known cause of air turbulence is thunderstorms, it\u2019s poorly understood how far from a tempest shaky conditions are likely to persist.<\/p>\n

To answer that question, researchers recently analyzed millions of measurements of air turbulence collected by commercial aircraft. The team found that a heightened risk of a jarring flight extended more than 55 miles away from a thunderstorm, which is roughly three times the storm-avoidance distance currently recommended by the Federal Aviation Administration. These findings, published this month<\/a> in The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, could inform new guidelines for storm avoidance, the researchers suggest.<\/p>\n

Pilots and dispatch crews on the ground have long kept an eye trained on the weather. \u201cThe links between meteorology and aviation go way, way back,\u201d said Stacey Hitchcock, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.<\/p>\n

Thunderstorms are of particular concern to pilots. \u201cYou get really rapid changes in vertical and horizontal motion over short distances,\u201d Dr. Hitchcock said. Those chaotic motions \u2014 which can also be caused by jet stream winds and air moving around obstacles like mountains \u2014 can cause aircraft to go up and down, creating the tumultuous sensation that\u2019s all too familiar to many fliers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In the past, daredevil pilots played a key role in revealing how aircraft experience turbulence near thunderstorms: A fleet of five P-61C Black Widow aircraft repeatedly flew through thunderstorms above Florida and Ohio in the 1940s. \u201cNo storm was to be avoided because it appeared too large or too violent,\u201d a senior analyst for that endeavor, the Thunderstorm Project<\/a>, later said at a meeting of the National Weather Association.<\/p>\n

Today, however, scientists have access to troves of air turbulence data. \u201cAlmost all commercial aircraft now are collecting some form of turbulence data,\u201d said Todd Lane, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia who was involved in the new research.<\/p>\n

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This is your captain speaking: You may need to buckle those seatbelts a lot sooner than you\u2019re used to.Rattled nerves and spilled drinks are the most common outcomes of a choppy flight, but intense air turbulence can also cause bodily harm. And while one well-known cause of air turbulence is thunderstorms, it\u2019s poorly understood how far from a tempest shaky conditions are likely to persist.To answer that question, researchers recently analyzed millions of measurements of air turbulence collected by commercial aircraft. The team found that a heightened risk of a jarring flight extended more than 55 miles away from a thunderstorm, which is roughly three times the storm-avoidance distance currently recommended by the Federal Aviation Administration. These findings, published this month in The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, could inform new guidelines for storm avoidance, the researchers suggest.Pilots and dispatch crews on the ground have long kept an eye trained on the weather. \u201cThe links between meteorology and aviation go way, way back,\u201d said Stacey Hitchcock, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.Thunderstorms are of particular concern to pilots. \u201cYou get really rapid changes in vertical and horizontal motion over short distances,\u201d Dr. Hitchcock said. Those chaotic motions \u2014 which can also be caused by jet stream winds and air moving around obstacles like mountains \u2014 can cause aircraft to go up and down, creating the tumultuous sensation that\u2019s all too familiar to many fliers.In the past, daredevil pilots played a key role in revealing how aircraft experience turbulence near thunderstorms: A fleet of five P-61C Black Widow aircraft repeatedly flew through thunderstorms above Florida and Ohio in the 1940s. \u201cNo storm was to be avoided because it appeared too large or too violent,\u201d a senior analyst for that endeavor, the Thunderstorm Project, later said at a meeting of the National Weather Association.Today, however, scientists have access to troves of air turbulence data. \u201cAlmost all commercial aircraft now are collecting some form of turbulence data,\u201d said Todd Lane, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia who was involved in the new research.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17520,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17521,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17518\/revisions\/17521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}