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- Title
Development of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the Measurement of Turbulence in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer.
- Authors
Witte, Brandon M.; Singler, Robert F.; Bailey, Sean C. C.
- Abstract
This paper describes the components and usage of an unmanned aerial vehicle developed for measuring turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer. A method of computing the time-dependent wind speed from a moving velocity sensor data is provided. The physical system built to implement this method using a five-hole probe velocity sensor is described along with the approach used to combine data from the different on-board sensors to allow for extraction of the wind speed as a function of time and position. The approach is demonstrated using data from three flights of two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) measuring the lower atmospheric boundary layer during transition from a stable to convective state. Several quantities are presented and show the potential for extracting a range of atmospheric boundary layer statistics.
- Subjects
DRONE aircraft; TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERIC boundary layer; ATMOSPHERIC physics; VELOCITY
- Publication
Atmosphere, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 10, p195
- ISSN
2073-4433
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/atmos8100195