Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1563-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-1563-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Research article
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01 Apr 2020
Research article |  | 01 Apr 2020

Distributed observations of wind direction using microstructures attached to actively heated fiber-optic cables

Karl Lapo, Anita Freundorfer, Lena Pfister, Johann Schneider, John Selker, and Christoph Thomas

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Most observations of the atmosphere are point observations, which only measure a small area around the sensor. This limitation creates problems for a number of disciplines, especially those that focus on how the surface and atmosphere exchange heat, mass, and momentum. We used distributed temperature sensing with fiber optics to demonstrate a key breakthrough in observing wind direction in a distributed way, i.e., not at a point, using small structures attached to the fiber-optic cables.
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