The Best Air Turbulence Probe, also known as the BAT probe, was invented in the late 1980’s by NOAA in an effort to better measure wind turbulence. The bat-shaped probe is equipped with a number of pressure sensors and a temperature sensor. Perturbations measured by those probes are then translated into wind flow measurements. Although the bat probe has been used on a number of different aircraft, it is most commonly used on the Airborne Laboratory Atmospheric Research (ALAR), which is owned and operated by Purdue University.
Instrument Details
- Wind/Current
- Earth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Upper Level WindsEarth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Wind DynamicsEarth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric PressureEarth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Wind Dynamics > TurbulenceEarth Science > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature
- Boundary Layer
- 0.07 s
- 0.13 m
- 50 Hz
- https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00206.1
- https://www.chem.purdue.edu/jafci/projects/alar.php
- https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JTECH1940.1
- https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/18a9/42df9fefdc32e757a56fe3bc18867e2eade2.pdf?_ga=2.133115598.1584087374.1589573335-171718626.1589573335
- https://www.atdd.noaa.gov/technologies/atmospheric-turbulence-probe/
Paul B. Shepson
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