GUST FACTOR VARIATIONS WITH HEIGHT AND ATMOSPHERIC STABILITY.
Abstract
Data collected from wind instrumentation installed on a 152.4 meter meteorological tower located on White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, are analyzed to determine gustiness characteristics during both unstable and very stable regimes. The following results are indicated: an increase in gust factors occurs as the air mass instability becomes greater and as the mean wind speed time averaging period is enlarged; however, a decrease in gust factors is associated with increases in height and wind speed and as the peak wind speed averaging interval is extended. Also, estimates of gust factors to a height of 152.4 meters are obtained for different averaging times and stability conditions by introducing a known gust factor value at 15.3 meters and a computed constant into a simple power-law expression. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0711855
Entities
People
- H. H. Monahan
- M. Armendariz
Organizations
- Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory