Calibration of 3-D wind measurements on  a single-engine research aircraft

Mallaun, C.; Giez, A.; Baumann, R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3177-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3177-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3177-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 8

Research article

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12 Aug 2015

Research article |

| 12 Aug 2015

Calibration of 3-D wind measurements on a single-engine research aircraft

C. Mallaun, A. Giez, and R. Baumann

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RC C326: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Mar 2015
- AC C1033: 'Answers to comments of Referee 1', Christian Mallaun, 07 May 2015
RC C356: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Mar 2015
- AC C1032: 'Answers to comments of Referee 2', Christian Mallaun, 07 May 2015

Short summary

We demonstrate a calibration method for the three-dimensional wind measurements on a research aircraft, which are strongly influenced by dynamical effects during flight. We correct these errors step by step after an extensive test flight program including new methods to gain optimum correction coefficients and a direct estimation of the residual errors. The overall error, estimated with a novel error propagation scheme, is 0.3 m/s for the horizontal and 0.2 m/s for the vertical wind.