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 5

Flight path (from bottom to top) and wind barbs recorded on the aircraft as overlaid on the satellite picture of MTSAT. The asterisk shows the location of the severe turbulence event, (b) is a zoom-in of (a) around the turbulence event location.
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