# Gravity Waves

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## Chapter IX: Links And Resources

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- Chapter IX: Links And Resources
- Links And Resources

### Links And Resources

Resources related to mountain waves:

- Mountain and lee waves in satellite imagery by Dr. Brad Muller:
  http://wx.db.erau.edu/faculty/mullerb/Wx365/Mountain_waves/mountain_waves.html
- Detection of mountain waves over Spain and the Balearic Islands in the WV7.3 channel of MSG:
  http://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Images/ImageLibrary/DAT_IL_04_12_28.html
- Rotor clouds (Youtube) by Steve Zimmermann:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juGLWnvJaQc
- Untersuchung von gebirgswellen durch Auswertung von Segelflug- und Radiosondendaten, Master Thesis Bernhard Forstner, 2000:
  http://www.streckenflug.at/gebirgswellen/
- WMO, 1978: Handbook of Meteorological Forecasting for Soaring Flights, WMO Technical Note Nr. 158
- SCORER R.S., 1951: Forecasting the Occurence of Lee Waves. Weather, 6, 99 - 103
- SCORER R.S., 1953: Forecasting Mountain Lee Waves. Met. Mag., 82, 232 - 234
- N. L. UHLENBROCK, K. M. BEDKA, W. F. FELTZ, AND S. A. ACKERMAN: Mountain Wave Signatures in MODIS 6.7-μm Imagery and Their Relation to Pilot Reports of Turbulence, Weather and Forecasting, Vol.22, pp. 662-670.

Resources related to gravity waves:

- Making Waves in the Sky off of Africa:
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=88296
- Wave Clouds off West Africa:
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8139&eocn=image&eoci=related_image
- Wave Clouds over the Arabian Sea:
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7758&eocn=image&eoci=related_image
- Sharp Line in the Clouds:
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80545&eocn=image&eoci=related_image
- Multiple strong, rapid convection developed on the collision points of two convective outflow boundaries, on 19 January:
  https://www.eumetsat.int/convective-outflow-boundary-over-botswana
- Severe hailstorm in Northern Italy:
  https://www.eumetsat.int/severe-hailstorm-northern-italy
- Gravity Waves Make Tornadoes:
  http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/19mar_grits/

Resources related to shear waves:

- Super Typhoon Nepartak reached winds of 270 km/h when it was seen by Himawari-8 on 6 July:
  https://www.eumetsat.int/himawari-8-has-its-eye-typhoon-nepartak
- Himawari-8 has its eye on Typhoon Nepartak:
  https://www.eumetsat.int/himawari-8-has-its-eye-typhoon-nepartak
- Transverse cirrus bands: a satellite signature of potential turbulence:
  https://www.eumetsat.int/transverse-cirrus-bands

Resources related to KH waves:

- Kelvin-Helmholtz-Wellen (in German):
  http://www.wetteran.de/newsblog/58-khw
- Kelvin-Helmholtz-Wellen by Dieter Etling (in German):
  http://www.schwerewelle.de/literatur/etling-dieter-kelvin-helmholtz-wellen-mitteilungen-der-deutschen-meteorologischen-gesellschaft-2-2014-s-2-4
- Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilität - Praktikumsunterlagen (in German):
  http://www.physik3.gwdg.de/Praktika/Fortgeschrittenen/Versuche/V254/kelvin.pdf

Miscellaneous:

- Forecasting Clear Air Turbulence for Aviation:
  https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=1138#.V-4J5U0grcs
- Microbursts:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst
- BOAC Flight 911
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_911