Submitted:
18 July 2022
Posted:
19 July 2022
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Abstract
This brief review introduces some general properties of lower atmospheric motions that may be exploited by birds, linking historical findings and current knowledge from both observational and modeling perspectives. The relative importance of turbulent mixing resulting from wind shear and that from buoyant thermals is emphasized as well as the determinants of the geometry of the resulting vertical motions.
Keywords:
turbulence and thermals
; atmospheric boundary layer
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