A method to assess the accuracy of sonic anemometer measurements

Peña, Alfredo; Dellwik, Ebba; Mann, Jakob

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-237-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-237-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-237-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Research article

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15 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 15 Jan 2019

A method to assess the accuracy of sonic anemometer measurements

Alfredo Peña, Ebba Dellwik, and Jakob Mann

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RC1: 'Review of "Pena et al"', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Response to referee nr. 2', Alfredo Peña, 17 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Manuscript Review', John Kochendorfer, 31 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'Response to referee nr. 1', Alfredo Peña, 17 Dec 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Alfredo Peña on behalf of the Authors (17 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (20 Dec 2018) by Laura Bianco

AR by Alfredo Peña on behalf of the Authors (21 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

We propose a method to assess the accuracy of turbulence measurements by sonic anemometers. The idea is to compute the ratio of the vertical to along-wind velocity spectrum within the inertial subrange. We found that the Metek USA-1 and the Campbell CSAT3 sonic anemometers do not show the expected theoretical ratio. A wind-tunnel-based correction recovers the expected ratio for the USA-1. A correction for the CSAT3 does not, illustrating that this sonic anemometer suffers from flow distortion.