In the icy peaks of NW China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Chinese scientists have built a meteorological station. At 5,896 meters high, this mountainous challenge required relentless determination. Click to learn all about this new chapter in meteorological observation. (Xinhua)
During weak winds condition, the gusty wind is characterized by a coherent structure. The gusty wind disturbances carry most of the eddy kinetic energy and play a major role in downward momentum flux. Turbulent fluctuations (period < 1 min) only contribute a few of these. There are pronounced differences between gusty wind disturbances and turbulent fluctuations, and the gusty wind disturbances are always anisotropic with moderate coherency, while the turbulent fluctuations are isotropic and nearly random.
The Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) released real-time photos taken every half an hour by cameras installed at the 325-meter high meteorological observation tower to the public starting from October 2015.
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