The Dulles Airport pressure-sensor array for gust-front detection - System design and preliminary results
Abstract
Seven high-wind events monitored by the Dulles Airport gust-front detection system are examined. The detection system consists of two major elements - a hybrid acoustic-microwave radar system for providing a detailed height profile of the wind directly above the sensor, and a dense surface array of pressure jump detectors for detecting the development and motion of the more localized features. Advantages and disadvantages of the use of anemometers for gust-flow detection of thunderstorm outflows and of the use of pressure jump detectors for detection of thunderstorm outflow are described. Procedures for optimizing the configuration and density of airport warning arrays are considered.
- Publication:
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4th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation
- Pub Date:
- 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978smoi.proc..115B
- Keywords:
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- Airport Planning;
- Gusts;
- Pressure Sensors;
- Systems Engineering;
- Wind Measurement;
- Acoustic Sounding;
- Anemometers;
- Atmospheric Turbulence;
- Statistical Analysis;
- Thunderstorms;
- Wind Direction;
- Wind Shear;
- Instrumentation and Photography