LEE WAVE INTERFERENCE PATTERNS - Their Explanation and Exploitation for Soaring Flight

Authors

  • Julian West

Keywords:

Meteorology, Climatology, Atmospheric physic

Abstract

Various interference pattems appearing on satellite photographs of wave clouds over the British Isles have been investigated by computer simulation. Almost all the complex pattems seen on satellite pictures can be reproduced by using a computer to combine two or more constant amplitude cosine waves propagating along the x-axis, each with different phase shifts that vary linearly along the y-axis. Some pattems imply the presence of two phase related waves having a 2:1 wavelength ratio. Mechanisms that might account for the presence of two wavelengths with a 2:1 ratio are discussed. Optimal flight paths through such wave pattems
are suggested.

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Vol. 20 No. 2 (1996)

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