Data · collection
VETS Visualizations: Clear Air Turbulence
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
NCAR and NOAA researchers worked togheter to study an incident where a cargo plane's engine was ripped off by clear air turbulence.In December of 1992, a DC-8 cargo plane westbound out of Denver encountered severe clear air turbulence.
Description
Despite losing an engine (far right side) and 6 meters of wing the crew managed to land the plane safely. This event - and others like it - are a strong reminder that we don't yet understand clear air turbulence nearly well enough.
In this particular case, observational data revealed pronounced Horizontally-aligned Vortex Tubes (HVT). NCAR and NOAA researchers worked together to study the incident and using NOAA weather data, developed a very high resolution numerical model to see what a simulation might reveal.
Links
Get the data
- GET DATA vets.ucar.edu/vg/CAT/index.shtml ↗
download · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214613797-SCIOPS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214613797-SCIOPS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Not provided · Turbulence
- Inferred from text
- Atmospheric sciences 68% · Simulation 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214613797-SCIOPS | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3701 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (68%) |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-winds/wind-dynamics/turbulence | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[method].local:method:simulation | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-provided | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |