CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - You may have heard this term before and if you’re wondering what it means, then this article is for you! In short, there’s both directional wind shear and speed wind shear.

Thunderstorms need certain ingredients in the atmosphere to form: moisture, instability and lift. However, for storms to tip the scale into severe status, additional ingredients are necessary, such as ...

We often hear this term when weather is blamed for a plane crash. By definition, a wind shear is any change in wind direction and or speed either horizontally or upward. Typically some wind shear is ...

Effect of feeding position on turbulent energy dissipation rate and Xs. (a) Time-average contours of turbulent energy dissipation rate of HSM-6-0.5-8 at N = 6000 r•min−1; (b) Effect of feeding ...