Wind Data from Kennedy Airport.

Abstract

A 700 foot array of horizontal and vertical single axis anemometers was installed at New York's Kennedy Airport on 30 foot poles under the approach to Runway 31R. One minute average measurements were recorded continuously, with a few breaks, from September 1994 through June 1995. Although the original purpose for the anemometers was to track the lateral position of wake vortices, the measurements also provide a database of wind and turbulence that can be used for other purposes. For example, the crosswind data has been used to evaluate four adaptive wake vortex separation systems based on the measured crosswind. This report documents the data formats and database characteristics and provides information on how to obtain a copy of the data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA326764

Entities

People

  • David Burnham
  • Steve Abramson

Organizations

  • John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircraft Noise
  • Aircrafts
  • Anemometers
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Boundary Layer
  • Cloud Cover
  • Crosswinds
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Processing
  • Databases
  • Measurement
  • Meteorology
  • Transportation
  • Turbulence
  • United States
  • Wind

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  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Library and Information Science