Clear-Air Turbulence

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
CAT
Pronunciation
/klɪr ɛr ˈtərbjələns/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
Transportation

Examples in Context

  1. This is to protect you from the risk of clear-air turbulence, a rare but extremely nasty form of disturbance that can cause severe injury.
  2. Physical Causation and Forecast of Strong Clear-air Turbulence
  3. Simple analytic expressions are derived for the temporal broadening and scintillations of a narrowband, space-time Gaussian pulse propagating through clear-air weak atmospheric turbulence in a laser satellite communication system.
  4. The results calculated show that the major contributions for the backscattering cross section come possibly from average cloud diameter, clear-air and humidity turbulence and also from distributions of cloud particles, especially, at higher frequencies.

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