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10th March 2014 | 20:22

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john_tullamarine

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"wind gradient" generally is used to refer to change of wind component with height. This is quite measurable at low level (ie boundary layer) especially over featureless terrain (eg oceanic). Important to the larger birds such as albatross.

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