Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-237-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-237-2019
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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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.