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Volume 1 - The Atmospheric Studies Group at TRC

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Anemometer Height Adjustment for Layer 1<br />

An adjustment to near-surface measured wind speeds is applied to estim<strong>at</strong>e the speed<br />

<strong>at</strong> the mid-point height of Layer 1 (usually 10m above the surface). Previously, such<br />

an adjustment must be accomplished outside of the CALMET/CALPUFF system.<br />

Anemometer heights are provided for all surface wind st<strong>at</strong>ions used in an applic<strong>at</strong>ion,<br />

so similarity theory, or even a simple power law adjustment, can be used to make the<br />

adjustment.<br />

CALMET supports an option to scale the near-surface measured winds to other<br />

layers aloft using either similarity theory, a stability-dependent power law, or a usersupplied<br />

set of multipliers (one for each layer). <strong>The</strong> same option has been<br />

implemented for adjusting the observed surface d<strong>at</strong>a to a height of 10 m, for Layer 1.<br />

In addition, if no extrapol<strong>at</strong>ion to layers aloft is selected, a neutral logarithmic wind<br />

profile is applied to estim<strong>at</strong>e the wind speed <strong>at</strong> 10m from th<strong>at</strong> measured <strong>at</strong><br />

anemometer height.<br />

Wind speed extrapol<strong>at</strong>ion is controlled by variable IEXTRP. For layer 1, the<br />

following options are available:<br />

1 extrapol<strong>at</strong>e vertically using a logarithmic wind<br />

profile<br />

IEXTRP =<br />

2 extrapol<strong>at</strong>e vertically using a power law equ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />

3 extrapol<strong>at</strong>e vertically using user-defined scaling factors<br />

4 extrapol<strong>at</strong>e vertically using similarity theory<br />

If z m is the anemometer height (m) of the surface wind observ<strong>at</strong>ion and u m is the<br />

measured wind speed (m/s), the extrapol<strong>at</strong>ion equ<strong>at</strong>ion options are:<br />

1:<br />

u<br />

( 10)<br />

( z0<br />

)<br />

( z z )<br />

ln 10<br />

= um (3-30)<br />

ln<br />

m<br />

0<br />

( 10) ( / )<br />

P<br />

2 : u = um 10 zm<br />

(3-31)<br />

3 :<br />

u<br />

( 10) FEXTRP( 1)<br />

= um<br />

(3-32)<br />

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