A gustiness in the three-dimensional flow of a fluid, irregular in both space and time, and characterized by local, short-lived rotation currents known as vortices. Turbulence is hierarchical; large eddies produce smaller ones, and so on, down a series of smaller and smaller scales. See Marquis and Roy (2011) ESPL 36, 4, 563, 2. In meteorology, it develops because of disturbances in air flows, the most important of which is wind shear; air parcels caught in a wind shear tend to roll over and over. The Reynolds number for turbulent flow is 2 000 to 2 500. In geomorphology, turbulent flow is classified according to the Froude number of a stream.