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Microscale Meteorological Mesoscale Synoptic Scale Microbursts Downbursts Thunderstorms Mountains

Wind shear is a meteorological phenomenon that occurs over small distances and can be associated with larger weather systems like squall lines and cold fronts. It is commonly observed near thunderstorms, fronts, areas of locally higher winds, mountains, temperature inversions, buildings, wind turbines, and sailboats. Wind shear has significant effects on aircraft control and has contributed to many aircraft accidents. It can also affect sound movement through the atmosphere and influence tropical cyclone and thunderstorm development. Differences in wind speeds at different heights are dependent on horizontal temperature variations and explain phenomena like jet streams.

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Microscale Meteorological Mesoscale Synoptic Scale Microbursts Downbursts Thunderstorms Mountains

Wind shear is a meteorological phenomenon that occurs over small distances and can be associated with larger weather systems like squall lines and cold fronts. It is commonly observed near thunderstorms, fronts, areas of locally higher winds, mountains, temperature inversions, buildings, wind turbines, and sailboats. Wind shear has significant effects on aircraft control and has contributed to many aircraft accidents. It can also affect sound movement through the atmosphere and influence tropical cyclone and thunderstorm development. Differences in wind speeds at different heights are dependent on horizontal temperature variations and explain phenomena like jet streams.

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Wind shear is a microscale meteorological phenomenon occurring over a very small distance,

but it can be associated with mesoscale or synoptic scale weather features such as squall lines
and cold fronts. It is commonly observed near microbursts and downbursts caused
by thunderstorms, fronts, areas of locally higher low-level winds referred to as low level jets,
near mountains, radiation inversions that occur due to clear skies and calm winds, buildings,
wind turbines, and sailboats. Wind shear has significant effects on control of an aircraft, and it
has been a sole or contributing cause of many aircraft accidents.
Wind shear is sometimes experienced by pedestrians at ground level when walking across a
plaza towards a tower block and suddenly encountering a strong wind stream that is flowing
around the base of the tower.
Sound movement through the atmosphere is affected by wind shear, which can bend the wave
front, causing sounds to be heard where they normally would not, or vice versa. Strong vertical
wind shear within the troposphere also inhibits tropical cyclone development, but helps to
organize individual thunderstorms into longer life cycles which can then produce severe weather.
The thermal wind concept explains how differences in wind speed at different heights are
dependent on horizontal temperature differences, and explains the existence of the jet stream.[2]

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