Wind Speed, Stability Category, and Atmospheric Turbulence at Selected Locations

Abstract

This report includes climatological information about wind speed, atmospheric stability, and turbulent wind fluctuations. It contains frequency distributions of observed surface wind speeds at 35 stations located throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Observations from two German stations and one Korean station are classified as a function of wind speed and stability category. A procedure is developed to use these observations to prepare seasonal climatologies of turbulent wind fluctuations. Our data on Pasquill category and wind speed relationship are also compared with four locations in the United states described in the literature. Finally, the United States data were also used to compute an annual climatology of turbulent wind fluctuations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA132947

Entities

People

  • Dorathy A. Stewart
  • Oskar M. Essenwanger

Organizations

  • United States Army Aviation and Missile Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Boundary Layer
  • Ecology
  • Engineering
  • Geography
  • Meteorological Data
  • Meteorology
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Richardson Number
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Wind

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Business Analytics
  • Climatology