A vector-averaging wind recorder (VWAR) system for surface meteorological measurements in CODE (Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment)
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/7485DOI
10.1575/1912/7485Abstract
As part of the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE) field
program, moored buoys were instrumented to measure and record
wind speed and direction, air and water temperature, insolation,
barometric pressure and relative humidity. Appropriate sensors
were selected, necessary modifications to the sensors and
existing current meters were made, and Vector Averaging Wind
Recorders (VAWRs) were assembled. R. M. Young utility rotor and
vane wind sets designed by G. Gill, Paroscientific Digiquartz
pressure sensors, Eppley pyranometers and Hy-Cal relative
humidity and solar sensors were used in two field experiments .
Standard VACM direction and temperature sensors were maintained
in the wind recorders. Devices were constructed as needed to
protect against measurement errors due to wind, sun and ocean
spray. Four W.H.O.I. VAWRs with Gill wind sensor sets were
deployed CODE-1 in 1981. Seven VAWRs were deployed in CODE-2 in
1982. A modified VMCM (Vector Measuring Current Meter) was used
for comparison in CODE-1, and the seventh VAWR deployed in CODE-2
carried an integral sensor set for comparison. Although several
VAWRs had minor problems, all but one VAWR in the two experiments
returned useful scientific data.
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Technical Report: Dean, Jerome P., Beardsley, Robert C., "A vector-averaging wind recorder (VWAR) system for surface meteorological measurements in CODE (Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment)", 1988-05, DOI:10.1575/1912/7485, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/7485Related items
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