Wind Measurement Limitations Explained with a Spinning Bucket Analogy

Visualize a bucket filled with water half the way to facilitate mixing, covered with a lid.  Now, imagine this bucket spin out of control, jump, wobble, momentarily stop, and randomly resume any of these actions.  Begin drawing a drop of water from a location within this bucket and measure its properties such as its speed.  Put the water drop back and wait for ten minutes and draw another drop from the same exact location as before and measure its speed.  Keep repeating this measurement effort for a while.  Now, use these measurements to characterize the chaotic behavior of the entire fluid (water) in the bucket…click here to read the rest of the article.

Visit http://www.linkedin.con/in/resprincfounder to learn more about the author, Dr. James Stalker.

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