Sensor Development for In-Situ Thermospheric Neutral Wind Measurements

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Heelis
Keyword(s):  
Neutral Wind ◽  
Sensor Development ◽  
Wind Measurements

scholarly journals Simultaneous and co-located wind measurements in the middle atmosphere by lidar and rocket-borne techniques

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 3911-3919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz-Josef Lübken ◽  
Gerd Baumgarten ◽  
Jens Hildebrand ◽  
Francis J. Schmidlin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Atmosphere ◽  
Systematic Difference ◽  
Horizontal Distance ◽  
In Situ Method ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Meridional Winds ◽  
Wind Measurements ◽  
In Situ Observations ◽  
Mean Differences

Abstract. We present the first comparison of a new lidar technique to measure winds in the middle atmosphere, called DoRIS (Doppler Rayleigh Iodine Spectrometer), with a rocket-borne in situ method, which relies on measuring the horizontal drift of a target (“starute”) by a tracking radar. The launches took place from the Andøya Space Center (ASC), very close to the ALOMAR observatory (Arctic Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmosphere Research) at 69° N. DoRIS is part of a steerable twin lidar system installed at ALOMAR. The observations were made simultaneously and with a horizontal distance between the two lidar beams and the starute trajectories of typically 0–40 km only. DoRIS measured winds from 14 March 2015, 17:00 UTC, to 15 March 2015, 11:30 UTC. A total of eight starute flights were launched successfully from 14 March, 19:00 UTC, to 15 March, 00:19 UTC. In general there is excellent agreement between DoRIS and the in situ measurements, considering the combined range of uncertainties. This concerns not only the general height structures of zonal and meridional winds and their temporal developments, but also some wavy structures. Considering the comparison between all starute flights and all DoRIS observations in a time period of ±20 min around each individual starute flight, we arrive at mean differences of typically ±5–10 m s−1 for both wind components. Part of the remaining differences are most likely due to the detection of different wave fronts of gravity waves. There is no systematic difference between DoRIS and the in situ observations above 30 km. Below ∼ 30 km, winds from DoRIS are systematically too large by up to 10–20 m s−1, which can be explained by the presence of aerosols. This is proven by deriving the backscatter ratios at two different wavelengths. These ratios are larger than unity, which is an indication of the presence of aerosols.

In-situ Glycine Sensor Development Based ZnO/Al2 O3 /Cr2 O3 Nanoparticles

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (41) ◽  
pp. 11460-11468 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Alam ◽  
Abdullah M. Asiri ◽  
M. T. Uddin ◽  
M. A. Islam ◽  
Mohammed M. Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Sensor Development

scholarly journals Development of an in situ Acoustic Anemometer to Measure Wind in the Stratosphere for SENSOR

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Liang ◽  
Hu Xiong ◽  
Wei Feng ◽  
Yan Zhaoai ◽  
Xu Qingchen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Meridional Wind ◽  
Floating Platform ◽  
Level Flight ◽  
Subsequent Publication ◽  
Wind Measurements ◽  
Commercial Off The Shelf ◽  
Solar Storms ◽  
Acoustic Anemometer

Abstract. The Stratospheric Environmental respoNses to Solar stORms (SENSOR) campaign investigates the influence of solar storms on the stratosphere. This campaign employs a long-duration zero-pressure balloon as a platform to carry multiple types of payloads during a series of flight experiments in the mid-latitude stratosphere from 2019 to 2022. This article describes the development and testing of an acoustic anemometer for obtaining in situ wind measurements along the balloon trajectory. Developing this anemometer was necessary, as there is no existing commercial off-the-shelf product, to the authors' knowledge, capable of obtaining in situ wind measurements on a high-altitude balloon or other similar floating platform in the stratosphere. The anemometer is also equipped with temperature, pressure, and humidity sensors from a Temperature-Pressure-Humidity measurement module, inherited from a radiosonde developed for sounding balloons. The acoustic anemometer and other sensors were used in a flight experiment of the SENSOR campaign that took place in the Da chaidan District (95.37° E, 37.74° N) on 4 September 2019. The zonal and meridional wind speed observations, which were obtained during level flight at an altitude exceeding 20 km, are presented. This is the first time that in situ wind measurements were obtained during level flight at this altitude. In addition to wind speed measurements, temperature, pressure, and relative humidity measurements during ascent are compared to observations from a nearby radiosonde launched four hours earlier. Further analysis of the wind data will presented in a subsequent publication. The problems experienced by the acoustic anemometer during the 2019 experiment show that the acoustic anemometer must be improved for future experiments in the SENSOR campaign.

A Novel probe for in-situ Electron density and Neutral Wind (ENWi) measurements in the near Earth space

2012 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 81-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Manju ◽  
R. Sridharan ◽  
P. Sreelatha ◽  
Sudha Ravindran ◽  
M.K. Madhav Haridas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Density ◽  
Neutral Wind ◽  
Earth Space ◽  
Near Earth Space

scholarly journals Method for Determining Neutral Wind Velocity Vectors Using Measurements of Internal Gravity Wave Group and Phase Velocities

Atmosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey V. Medvedev ◽  
Konstantin G. Ratovsky ◽  
Maxim V. Tolstikov ◽  
Roman V. Vasilyev ◽  
Maxim F. Artamonov
Keyword(s):  
Group Velocity ◽  
Wind Velocity ◽  
Wave Vector ◽  
Velocity Vector ◽  
Internal Gravity Waves ◽  
Vertical Wind ◽  
New Method ◽  
Neutral Wind ◽  
Wind Velocities ◽  
Wind Measurements

This study presents a new method for determining a neutral wind velocity vector. The basis of the method is measurement of the group velocities of internal gravity waves. Using the case of the Boussinesq dispersion relation, we demonstrated the ability to measure a neutral wind velocity vector using the group velocity and wave vector data. An algorithm for obtaining the group velocity vector from the wave vector spectrum is proposed. The new method was tested by comparing the obtained winter wind pattern with wind data from other sources. Testing the new method showed that it is in quantitative agreement with the Fabry–Pérot interferometer wind measurements for zonal and vertical wind velocities. The differences in meridional wind velocities are also discussed here. Of particular interest were the results related to the measurement of vertical wind velocities. We demonstrated that two independent methods gave the presence of vertical wind velocities with amplitude of ~20 m/s. Estimation of vertical wind contribution to plasma drift velocity indicated the importance of vertical wind measurements and the need to take them into account in physical and empirical models of the ionosphere and thermosphere.

Fiber Optic Sensor Development for Real-Time In-Situ Epoxy Cure Monitoring

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. M. Liu ◽  
C. Ganesh ◽  
J. P. H. Steele ◽  
J. E. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Fiber Optic Sensor ◽  
Sensor Development ◽  
Cure Monitoring ◽  
Optic Sensor
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