The need to identify correlated traffic bursts at various, and especially fine-grain, time scales has become pressing in modern data centers. The combination of Gigabit link speeds and small switch buffers have led to “microbursts”, which cause packet drops and large increases in latency. Our paper describes the design and implementation of an efficient and flexible end-host bandwidth measureme...

This report evaluates the capability of Airport Surveillance Radars (ASRs) for the detection of low altitude wind shear associated with the outflows of dry microbursts. It describes results of simulations of dry microburst observations by an ASR. These simulations incorporated weather and clutter data collected by the FL-2 pencil-beam Doppler weather radar at Denver Stapleton Airport in 1988 an...

The ASR-9 Wind Shear Processor (WSP) is intended as an economical alternative for those airports that have not been slated to receive a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR), but have, or will be receiving, an ASR-9 radar. Lincoln Laboratory has developed a prototype ASR-9 WSP system which has been demonstrated during the summer months of the past 3 years in Orlando, Florida. During the operati...

An experimental investigation is performed to assess the characteristics of the fluid– structure interactions and microburst-induced wind loads acting on a wind turbine model sited in microburst-liked winds. The experiment study was conducted with a scaled wind turbine model placed in microburst-like winds generated by using an impinging-jet-typed microburst simulator. In addition to quantifyin...

Microbursts have been simulated and studied using different physical and numerical modeling methods. In the present study, the steady impinging jet model was comprehensively studied by using a 2-footdiameter (0.61 m) microburst simulator available in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University. Point measurements and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) results revealed a detai...

The evolution of a small, vigorous mesoscale convective system (MCS) over northern Alabama is described using Doppler radar, GOES satellite, surface mesonet, lightning, and sounding data. The MCS formed near noon in a relatively unstable environment having weak synoptic forcing and weak shear. The initiation of separate lines and clusters of deep convection occurred in regions exhibiting cumulu...