Instrumentation for Surface Flux Measurements

Abstract

Research instruments, consisting of 2 workstations, 14 sonic anemometers, and 28 fine wire thermocouples, were acquired with funds provided under this grant. This equipment was primarily intended for innovative studies of the resolvable and sub-grid turbulence and fluxes pertinent to large eddy simulation models of the atmospheric boundary layer. This report describes the equipment purchased and gives a brief description of equipment use in seven different field studies of atmospheric boundary layer fluxes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 20, 2000
Accession Number
ADA385929

Entities

People

  • Carl W. Tong
  • J. C. Wyngaard
  • J. G. Brasseur
  • S. Khanna

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anemometers
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Data Acquisition
  • Distortion
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Instrumentation
  • Large Eddy Simulation
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Simulations
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Turbulence
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Fluid Dynamics.