Characteristics of atmospheric turbulence as related to wind loads on tall structures

Data collected from wind instrumentation installed on a 152‐meter meteorological tower located on White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, are analyzed to determine gustiness characteristics during both unstable and very stable regimes. The following results are indicated: an increase in gust factors occurs as the air‐mass instability becomes greater and as the mean wind‐speed time averaging period is enlarged; however a decrease in gust factors is associated with an increase in height and wind speed and with the extension of the peak wind‐speed averaging interval. Also, estimates of gust factors to a height of 152 meters are obtained for different averaging times and stability conditions by introducing a known gust factor value at 15.3 meters and a computed constant into a simple power‐law expression.

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Characteristics of atmospheric turbulence as related to wind loads on tall structures

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