Flight and radar position records are analyzed to determine the winds encountered by four airliners that penetrated a multicell microburst on approach to Denver's Stapleton International Airport. The results show significant expansion in the size of the microburst, and indicate that there were fluctuations in the internal wind velocity. At its peak strength, as experienced by the second aircraft, the microburst produced a head-wind-to-tail-wind shear of 115 ft/sec. The wind patterns derived from the flight-data analysis are in general agreement with results derived from Doppler weather radar and from a numerical microburst simulation.


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    Title :

    Analysis of records from four airliners in the Denver microburst, July 11, 1988


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference ; 1989 ; Boston, MA, United States


    Publication date :

    1989-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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