Using high resolution GPS tracking data of bird flight for meteorological observations

摘要: AbstractBird flight is strongly influenced by local meteorological conditions. With increasing amounts of high-frequency GPS data bird movement becoming available, as tags become cheaper and lighter, opportunities are created to obtain large datasets quantitative information from observations conducted bird-borne tags. In this article we propose a method for estimating wind velocity convective scale tag-based soaring birds in flight.The patterns the interactions between atmospheric boundary layer processes morphology bird; climb rates depend on vertical air motion, altitude depends height, drift off bird’s path speed direction. We combine aerodynamic theory flight, morphological properties, three-dimensional measurements at 3-s intervals estimate ...