A-321 first officer reported a wake turbulence encounter while climbing out from sfo.

Attributes
ACN	1674883
Time
Date	201908
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	SFO.Airport
State Reference	CA
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	A321
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Aircraft 2
Make Model Name	Any Unknown or Unlisted Aircraft Manufacturer
Flight Phase	Climb
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Inflight Event / Encounter Wake Vortex Encounter

Narrative:

Wake upset during climb; turned off course to avoid further wake and it took several minutes to notify ATC of route deviation due to frequency congestion. ATC was helpful once they understood what we needed. Fortunately we were in an area with sparse traffic and therefore no risk of losing separation. It's all in the timing and altitude between aircraft; conditions were perfect and we flew into the wake. We turned off course to get out of continued wake. Wake events in climb or cruise are very rare and therefore surprising; beyond creating an algorithm to predict an encounter and adjusting traffic accordingly there is not much to do.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A-321 First Officer reported a wake turbulence encounter while climbing out from SFO.

Narrative: Wake upset during climb; turned off course to avoid further wake and it took several minutes to notify ATC of route deviation due to frequency congestion. ATC was helpful once they understood what we needed. Fortunately we were in an area with sparse traffic and therefore no risk of losing separation. It's all in the timing and altitude between aircraft; conditions were perfect and we flew into the wake. We turned off course to get out of continued wake. Wake events in climb or cruise are very rare and therefore surprising; beyond creating an algorithm to predict an encounter and adjusting traffic accordingly there is not much to do.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.