Research Article

An Analysis of a Severe Turbulence Event Encountered by an Aircraft over the South China Sea and the Application of Numerical Weather Prediction Models in the Early Alerting of the Event

Figure 3

Infrared satellite pictures from MTSAT over the area of severe turbulence before and after the event. The convection under consideration is highlighted by a red arrow. The asterisk shows the location of the severe turbulence event. The satellite images are shown using the colour scale of Dvorak analysis.
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(a) 0932 UTC
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(b) 1032 UTC
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(c) 1332 UTC
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(d) 1532 UTC