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Wind estimation based on thermal soaring of birds
Treep, J., Bohrer, G., Shamoun-Baranes, J., Duriez, O., Prata de Moraes Frasson, R., Bouten, W.
Ecology and Evolution2016 · 6(24) · 8669–8679doi:10.1002/ece3.2585
Résumé
Soaring birds extract energy from the atmosphere by climbing in thermals. The authors show that GPS tracks of soaring birds can be inverted to recover wind speed and direction, with errors comparable to airport METAR stations within 30 km.
Pourquoi c’est utile ici
Foundational. We-Fly's wind-from-track estimator is a direct descendant of this inversion model.
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Treep et al. (2016).
Wind estimation based on thermal soaring of birds.
Ecology and Evolution.
Wind estimation based on thermal soaring of birds.
Ecology and Evolution.