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The current state of our understanding of aviation-scale turbulence processes and overviews of current detection and forecasting methods were provided in previous chapters of this book. Future progress will require a multipronged multidisciplinary approach from the academic, engineering, and user communities underpinned by advances in our fundamental understanding of turbulence process. The chapter outlines the required research and development, as well as operational needs, required to better understand, observe, and predict turbulence regions.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the reviews and suggestions supplied by John Knox, Paul Williams, Wiebke Deierling, Stan Trier, and Jim Doyle. Todd Lane is supported by the Australian Research Council's Centres of Excellence Scheme (CE110001028).

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  3. Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, 82234, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

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Sharman, R., Lane, T., Schumann, U. (2016). Research Needs. In: Sharman, R., Lane, T. (eds) Aviation Turbulence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23630-8_25

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