AFAL Tower Characterization Facility: 4-km Weather Instrumentation Tower.

Abstract

A 130-ft high tower has been erected at the mid-point (4-km) of the AFAL Tower Characterization Facility to support weather instrumentation. The tower has an instrument package which can be lowered to ground level for repair or replacement of instruments, and then raised again to the top for operation. The instrument cart is designed so that other instrument packages can be easily substituted. The present instrument package includes the following: forward scatter meter, pyranometer, continuous-reading pluviometer, tipping bucket pluviometer, wind-speed and wind-direction sensors, temperature dewpoint set, and thermometer. The data collected from this weather instrumentation tower are being used to characterize the atmosphere on the performance of EO sensors. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA049525

Entities

People

  • Wayne R. Chase

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Circuit Boards
  • Circuits
  • Connectors
  • Construction
  • Contracts
  • Couplings
  • Detectors
  • Diagrams
  • Electro-Optical Sensors
  • Safety
  • Sites
  • Test Facilities
  • Tilt/Vibration Switches
  • Towers
  • United States
  • Wiring Diagrams

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

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  • Climatology
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Software Engineering