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Prof. Jin-Yi Yu
Hodographs
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•Meteorologists use hodographs to display the vertical wind shear information collected from rawinsondes.
•The change of wind direction and speed between two altitudes is called vertical wind shear.
•Hodographs show wind sped and direction at evenly spaced altitudes, for example at 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 kilometers.