Wind Structure in Winter Storms

Sherlock, R. H.; Stout, M. B.

doi:10.2514/8.511

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“…This instrument probably provided the first measurement of wind gusts ever. Pressure plate anemometers were still used during the first half of the 20th Century [ 14 , 15 ], but after that, other instruments have taken over.…”

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Wind Gust Measurement Techniques—From Traditional Anemometry to New Possibilities

Suomi

Vihma

2018

Sensors

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Information on wind gusts is needed for assessment of wind-induced damage and risks to safety. The measurement of wind gust speed requires a high temporal resolution of the anemometer system, because the gust is defined as a short-duration (seconds) maximum of the fluctuating wind speed. Until the digitalization of wind measurements in the 1990s, the wind gust measurements suffered from limited recording and data processing resources. Therefore, the majority of continuous wind gust records date back at most only by 30 years. Although the response characteristics of anemometer systems are good enough today, the traditional measurement techniques at weather stations based on cup and sonic anemometers are limited to heights and regions where the supporting structures can reach. Therefore, existing measurements are mainly concentrated over densely-populated land areas, whereas from remote locations, such as the marine Arctic, wind gust information is available only from sparse coastal locations. Recent developments of wind gust measurement techniques based on turbulence measurements from research aircraft and from Doppler lidar can potentially provide new information from heights and locations unreachable by traditional measurement techniques. Moreover, fast-developing measurement methods based on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) may add to better coverage of wind gust measurements in the future. In this paper, we provide an overview of the history and the current status of anemometry from the perspective of wind gusts. Furthermore, a discussion on the potential future directions of wind gust measurement techniques is provided.

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Wind Gust Measurement Techniques—From Traditional Anemometry to New Possibilities

Suomi

Vihma

2018

Sensors

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“…The order of eddy sizes studied ranges from perhaps ten to a thousand meters, with corresponding periods from several seconds to several minutes. Among such studies are those listed in references [2,7,11,15]. There has been very little study of the fine structure of turbulent flow, i.e., of eddies with dimensions of a fraction of a meter, and frequencies of several per second.…”

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A Fast Response Anemometer for Micrometeorological Investigations*

Gill

1954

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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There has been relatively little study of the fine structure of turbulent flow near the ground due, in no small part, to the scarcity of suitable instrumentation to measure and record the rapid fluctuations of the wind. The present paper describes a simple heated-thermocouple type of hot-wire anemometer that in a wind averaging 5 m sec−1 is capable of recording sinusoidal wind fluctuations of 10 per sec with an accuracy of better than 90 percent, and of 40 per sec with an accuracy of 50 percent.

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Wind Meteorology, Micrometeorology and Climatology

Solari

2019

Wind Science and Engineering

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Wind Structure in Winter Storms

Cited by 10 publications

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Wind Gust Measurement Techniques—From Traditional Anemometry to New Possibilities

Wind Gust Measurement Techniques—From Traditional Anemometry to New Possibilities

A Fast Response Anemometer for Micrometeorological Investigations*

Wind Meteorology, Micrometeorology and Climatology

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