Air is always turbulent, sometimes more than other times, and is relevant to the ac. It is not a smooth flow, but flows in waves and currents, very similar to the Ocean, after all, air is just thin water....(it is called the jet STREAM)
The ac converts winds aloft into a 2D component representation, a direction and a speed.
It does not however, have a way to represent the vertical component of the winds...
OK, I should have been more clear. I am talking about the high altitude cirrus clouds. I guess I did basically say that so let's stick to the Cirrus.
in this scenario, clouds are the end result of atmospheric conditions, not the means.