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Charlotte E. Wainwright
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Open AccessLinking Small-Scale Flight Manoeuvers and Density Profiles to the Vertical Movement of Insects in the Nocturnal Stable Boundary Layer
Huge numbers of insects migrate over considerable distances in the stably-stratified night-time atmosphere with great consequences for ecological processes, biodiversity, ecosystem services and pest management...
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Secrets of intercontinental flight
Analysis of data from weather radars across the continental United States shows that migratory birds flying further are more likely to survive the journey.
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Open AccessThe movement of small insects in the convective boundary layer: linking patterns to processes
In fine warm weather, the daytime convective atmosphere over land areas is full of small migrant insects, among them serious pests (e.g. some species of aphid), but also many beneficial species (e.g. natural e...
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The role of the US Great Plains low-level jet in nocturnal migrant behavior
The movements of aerial animals are under the constant influence of atmospheric flows spanning a range of spatiotemporal scales. The Great Plains nocturnal low-level jet is a large-scale atmospheric phenomenon...
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Influence of atmospheric properties on detection of wood-warbler nocturnal flight calls
Avian migration monitoring can take on many forms; however, monitoring active nocturnal migration of land birds is limited to a few techniques. Avian nocturnal flight calls are currently the only method for de...
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Measurements of the Temperature Structure-Function Parameters with a Small Unmanned Aerial System Compared with a Sodar
The structure function is often used to quantify the intensity of spatial inhomogeneities within turbulent flows. Here, the Small Multifunction Research and Teaching Sonde (SMARTSonde), an unmanned aerial syst...
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Methods for Evaluating the Temperature Structure-Function Parameter Using Unmanned Aerial Systems and Large-Eddy Simulation
Small-scale turbulent fluctuations of temperature are known to affect the propagation of both electromagnetic and acoustic waves. Within the inertial-subrange scale, where the turbulence is locally homogeneous...
