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Comparison of wind and turbulence measurements from doppler lidar and instrumented aircraft
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Ringnes, E. A. Huang, K. H. Frost, W. |
| Copyright Year | 1985 |
| Description | Wind fields were measured with the ground based lidar, NOAA Wave Propagation Laboratory and with the NASA B-57B instrumented aircraft. The remotely sensed winds are compared with the in situ aircraft measurements. Three flight plans were carried out during the two different field programs. At NASA/MSFC the aircraft circled while the lidar scanned conically and the aircraft flew 6 deg approach path along the fixed lidar beam. The aircraft flew an approach along the lidar beam directed south-north (parallel to the mountain range) and a climbout along the lidar beam which alternately shifted east-west (perpendicular to the mountain range). Turbulence intensities and spectra were calculated from the temporal fluctuations in the lidar-measured radial wind speed component. These field tests provided unique sets of data to examine the mean wind and turbulence measurements made by remote sensing instruments. The comparison of aircraft measured turbulence intensities and spectra with lidar time histories of radial wind speed were in good agreement. |
| File Size | 21213675 |
| Page Count | 60 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19850023416 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t80k7826m |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1985-06-18 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Wind Direction Atmospheric Turbulence Spectrum Analysis Wind Measurement Wind Velocity Doppler Radar Velocity Distribution Remote Sensing Optical Radar Radar Measurement Carbon Dioxide Lasers Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |