A combined boundary-profile and automated data-reduction and analysis system
Abstract
A portable boundary-layer meteorological data-acquisition and analysis system is described which employs a small tethered balloon and a programmable calculator. The system is capable of measuring pressure, wet- and dry-bulb temperature, wind speed, and temperature fluctuations as a function of height and time. Other quantities, which can be calculated in terms of these, can also be made available in real time. All quantities, measured and calculated, can be printed, plotted, and stored on magnetic tape in the field, during the data-acquisition phase of an experiment.
- Publication:
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Boundary-Layer Meteorology
- Pub Date:
- August 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00225864
- Bibcode:
- 1976BoLMe..10..455D
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Boundary Layer;
- Data Acquisition;
- Meteorological Parameters;
- Minicomputers;
- On-Line Programming;
- Tethered Balloons;
- Atmospheric Pressure;
- Atmospheric Temperature;
- Calculators;
- Data Reduction;
- Magnetic Tapes;
- Portable Equipment;
- Wind Velocity Measurement;
- Wind Speed;
- Temperature Fluctuation;
- Magnetic Tape;
- Programmable Calculator;
- Tethered Balloon