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Research article
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15 Jan 2019
Research article |
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| 15 Jan 2019
A method to assess the accuracy of sonic anemometer measurements
DTU Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark
Ebba Dellwik
DTU Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark
Jakob Mann
DTU Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark
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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.
We propose a method to assess the accuracy of turbulence measurements by sonic anemometers. The...
