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Metzger, Stefan ; Junkermann, Wolfgang ; Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus ; Schmid, Hans Peter ; Foken, Thomas:
Corrigendum to "Measuring the 3-D wind vector with a weight-shift microlight aircraft" published in Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 1421–1444, 2011.
In: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.
Bd. 4
(2011)
Heft 7
.
- S. 1515-1539.
ISSN 1867-8548
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-4-1515-2011
Abstract
This study investigates whether the 3-D wind vector can be measured reliably from a highly transportable and low-cost weight-shift microlight aircraft. We draw up a transferable procedure to accommodate flow distortion originating from the aircraft body and -wing. This procedure consists of the analysis of aircraft dynamics and seven successive calibration steps. For our aircraft the horizontal wind components receive their greatest single amendment (14%, relative to the initial uncertainty) from the correction of flow distortion magnitude in the dynamic pressure computation. Conversely the vertical wind component is most of all improved (31%) by subsequent steps considering the 3-D flow distortion distribution in the flow angle computations. Therein the influences of the aircraft’s trim (53%), as well as changes in the aircraft lift (16%) are considered by using the measured lift coefficient as explanatory variable. Three independent lines of analysis are used to evaluate the quality of the wind measurement: (a) A wind tunnel study in combination with the propagation of sensor uncertainties defines the systems input uncertainty to ≈0.6m s⁻¹ at the extremes of a 95% confidence interval. (b) During severe vertical flight manoeuvres the deviation range of the vertical wind component does not exceed 0.3m s⁻¹. (c) The comparison with ground based wind measurements yields an overall operational uncertainty (root mean square error) of ≈0.4m s⁻¹ for the horizontal and ≈0.3m s⁻¹ for the vertical wind components. No conclusive dependence of the uncertainty on the wind magnitude (<8 m s⁻¹) or true airspeed (ranging from 23–30m s⁻¹) is found. Hence our analysis provides the necessary basis to study the wind measurement precision and spectral quality, which is prerequisite for reliable eddy-covariance flux measurements.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Zusätzliche Informationen: | BAYCEER98847 |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften > Ehemalige Professoren Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften > Ehemalige Professoren > Professur Mikrometeorologie - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Foken Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungszentren > Bayreuther Zentrum für Ökologie und Umweltforschung - BayCEER Fakultäten Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften Fakultäten > Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften > Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften Forschungseinrichtungen Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungszentren |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik |
| Eingestellt am: | 13 Aug 2015 06:11 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 17 Mai 2022 10:34 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/17946 |