Fiber optic distributed temperature sensing for the determination of air temperature

de Jong, S. A. P.; Slingerland, J. D.; van de Giesen, N. C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-335-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-335-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-335-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

Research article

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15 Jan 2015

Research article |

| 15 Jan 2015

Fiber optic distributed temperature sensing for the determination of air temperature

S. A. P. de Jong, J. D. Slingerland, and N. C. van de Giesen

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RC C1967: 'review', Clemens Drüe, 31 Jul 2014
AC C3249: 'Reply on main comments', Nick van de Giesen, 18 Oct 2014
RC C3315: 'Interactive Comment on the AMT-2014-136 paper “Fiber optic distributed temperature sensing for the determination of air temperature” by S. A. P. de Jong et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 23 Oct 2014
AC C3702: 'Reply to both reviewers', Nick van de Giesen, 12 Nov 2014
AC C3705: 'New manuscript', Nick van de Giesen, 12 Nov 2014

Short summary

By using two cylindrical thermometers with different diameters, one can determine what temperature a zero diameter thermometer would have. Such a virtual thermometer would not be affected by solar heating and would take on the temperature of the surrounding air. We applied this principle to atmospheric temperature measurements with fiber optic cables using distributed temperature sensing (DTS). With two unshielded cable pairs, one black pair and one white pair, good results were obtained.