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

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="834579.fig.002a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2014/834579/figures/834579.fig.002a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>850 hPa wind with vorticity (shaded)</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="834579.fig.002b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2014/834579/figures/834579.fig.002b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>500 hPa wind</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><img alt="834579.fig.002c" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2014/834579/figures/834579.fig.002c.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(c) </b>200 hPa wind with divergence (shaded)</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Upper-air analysis from JMA global model. The asterisk shows the location of the severe turbulence event.</table>

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Figure 2: 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 2 | 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 