Airborne Wind Measurements at Cape Blanco, Oregon.

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:7058441

Lin, Jung-Tai Lin; Veenhuizen, Scott D

The airborne wind measuring system using a fixed wing airplane and a Loran-C navigation unit was proven to be feasible to provide the large scale background wind flow for initialization of numerical wind modeling. The rms errors in the airborne wind measuring system were +- 2 mph in wind speed and +- 12 degrees in wind direction. The advantages of this method were that wind speeds over a large area (5 miles x 14 miles, or 18 miles x 30 miles) may be determined rapidly, economically and at altitudes above the normal altitudes of TALA kite mesurements. The disadvantages were that the spatial resolution of the measurements was poor and near surface measurements were not feasible using a fixed wing aircraft. 1 reference, 10 figures, 1 table.

• Research Organization: United Industries Corp., Bellevue, WA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
• DOE Contract Number: AC79-82BP34337
• OSTI ID: 7058441
• Report Number(s): DOE/BP-257; ON: DE84013662
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

500100* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Basic Studies-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AERIAL MONITORING
AIRCRAFT
DATA
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FEDERAL REGION X
INFORMATION
MEASURING METHODS
MONITORING
NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENTS
NORTH AMERICA
NUMERICAL DATA
OREGON
USA
WIND
Wind power - Oregon - Blanco
Cape - Measurement