Anyone who has experienced turbulence in flight knows that it is usually not pleasant and may
wonder why this is so difficult to avoid. The book includes papers by various aviation
turbulence researchers and provides background into the nature and causes of atmospheric
turbulence that affect aircraft motion and contains surveys of the latest techniques for
remote and in situ sensing and forecasting of the turbulence phenomenon. It provides updates on
the state-of-the-art research since earlier studies in the 1960s on clear-air turbulence
explains recent new understanding into turbulence generation by thunderstorms and summarizes
future challenges in turbulence prediction and avoidance.
