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The effect of a meteorological tower on its top-mounted anemometer

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  • Perrin, Dimitri
  • McMahon, Niall
  • Crane, Martin
  • Ruskin, Heather J.
  • Crane, Lawrence
  • Hurley, Brian

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The wind-speed at a site can be measured by installing anemometers on top of meteorological (met) towers. In addition to other sources of error, accelerated airflow, or speed-up, around the top of met towers can cause incorrect anemometer measurements. We consider a particular example where an anemometer was located only 2 tower diameters above the met tower. Using a standard computational fluid-dynamics package, we found the maximum error for this configuration to be 2% of the wind-speed. We conclude that a top-mounted anemometer should be located at the windward side of its met tower, raised 5 diameters above the top. This will reduce speed-up error to less than 1%.

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  • Perrin, Dimitri & McMahon, Niall & Crane, Martin & Ruskin, Heather J. & Crane, Lawrence & Hurley, Brian, 2007. "The effect of a meteorological tower on its top-mounted anemometer," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 84(4), pages 413-424, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:84:y:2007:i:4:p:413-424
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    1. Benghanem, M., 2009. "Measurement of meteorological data based on wireless data acquisition system monitoring," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 86(12), pages 2651-2660, December.

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