Analysis reveals solitary waves pose significant hazards due to wind-shear in low-altitude aircraft operations, indicating a need for safety measures.
This paper is concerned with the serious hazard to the operation of aircraft at low altitudes created by solitary waves in the atmospheric boundary layer. A thorough investigation of these non-linear waves has shown that they occur frequently at all times of the year over northern Australia, that they often occur without warning as sudden clear-air disturbances and that they produce intense transient horizontal and vertical wind-shear zones near the surface. A brief description is given of the properties of these disturbances which relate directly to the problem of air safety. Solitary wave disturbances are found to be implicated as the primary causal factor in a significant number of wind-shear related aircraft accidents.
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