A Martian acoustic anemometer

An acoustic anemometer for use on Mars has been developed. To understand the processes that control the interaction between surface and atmosphere on Mars, not only the mean winds, but also the turbulent boundary layer, the fluxes of momentum, heat and molecular constituents between surface and atmo...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2016-08, Vol.140 (2), p.1420-1428
Hauptverfasser: Banfield, Don, Schindel, David W., Tarr, Steve, Dissly, Richard W.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:An acoustic anemometer for use on Mars has been developed. To understand the processes that control the interaction between surface and atmosphere on Mars, not only the mean winds, but also the turbulent boundary layer, the fluxes of momentum, heat and molecular constituents between surface and atmosphere must be measured. Terrestrially this is done with acoustic anemometers, but the low density atmosphere on Mars makes it challenging to adapt such an instrument for use on Mars. This has been achieved using capacitive transducers and pulse compression, and was successfully demonstrated on a stratospheric balloon (simulating the Martian environment) and in a dedicated Mars Wind Tunnel facility. This instrument achieves a measurement accuracy of ∼5 cm/s with an update rate of >20 Hz under Martian conditions.
ISSN:0001-4966
1520-8524
DOI:10.1121/1.4960737