Part I Background -- Nature of aviation turbulence -- A History of Weather Reporting from Aircraft and Turbulence Forecasting for Commercial Aviation -- Instabilities Conducive to Aviation Turbulence -- Turbulence events interpreted by vortex rolls -- Part II Turbulence Detection Methods and Applications -- Airborne in situ measurements of turbulence -- Doppler radar measurements of turbulence -- Remote Turbulence Detection using Ground-Based Doppler Weather Radar -- Relations between lightning and convective turbulence -- LIDAR-based turbulence intensity for aviation applications -- Part III Nowcasting, forecasting, and verification -- A Summary of Turbulence Forecasting Techniques Used by the National Weather Service -- An Airline Perspective: Current and Future Vision for Turbulence Forecasting and Reporting -- Automated Turbulence Forecasting Strategies -- Aviation turbulence forecast verification -- Aviation turbulence ensemble techniques -- Part IV Observational and modeling studies -- Multi-scale observational and numerical modeling studies of the turbulence environment -- Processes underlying near-cloud turbulence -- Modeling Studies of Turbulence Mechanisms Associated with Mesoscale Convective Systems -- Numerical Modeling and Predictability of Mountain Wave-Induced Turbulence and Rotors -- Gravity waves generated by jets and fronts and their relevance for clear-air turbulence -- Turbulence and waves in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere -- Similarity of stably geophysical stratified flows -- Part V Future developments -- Airborne remote detection of turbulence with forward-looking LIDAR -- Clear-air turbulence in a changing climate -- Application of Aviation Turbulence Information to Air-Traffic Management (ATM) -- Research needs.

Anyone who has experienced turbulence in flight knows that it is usually not pleasant, and may wonder why this is so difficult to avoid. The book includes papers by various aviation turbulence researchers and provides background into the nature and causes of atmospheric turbulence that affect aircraft motion, and contains surveys of the latest techniques for remote and in situ sensing and forecasting of the turbulence phenomenon. It provides updates on the state-of-the-art research since earlier studies in the 1960s on clear-air turbulence, explains recent new understanding into turbulence generation by thunderstorms, and summarizes future challenges in turbulence prediction and avoidance.