• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.325-331
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• 2010

Three-cup anemometers are popular devices for measuring wind speeds in automated weather stations, environmental monitoring systems, and wind turbines. Cup anemometers usually suffer from lack of long-term stability owing to the wear of the bearing systems that support the rotational parts. The bearing systems are susceptible to external pollutants, vibrations, and gusts. Therefore, these anemometers have to be calibrated regularly to maintain the desired characteristics for measuring wind speed. In the present study, a new in-situ calibration system to help reduce cost and save time by calibrating the cup anemometers at the installation site is proposed. A portable in-situ calibrator was fabricated. After the characteristics of this calibrator were verified, it was used to calibrate cup anemometers. Some of the calibration results were compared with the data obtained by wind tunnel testing.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.190-195
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• 2000

The paper presents the constant temperature digital hot-film anemometer that measures easily a wind velocity at the indoor. The output is linearized using microprocessor and analog-to-digital converter, because the fourth root of the wind velocity is the output voltage of the sensor. The comparison result between fabricated and reference anemometer is less than ${\pm}2%$. In the range of air temperature of $23^{\circ}C{\sim}60^{\circ}C$, the error is about ${\pm}1%$ in wind velocity 10m/sec.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.480-484
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• 2001

본 연구에서는 실제 풍력 자원 측정용 Pole에 설치된 풍속계가 mast에 의한 후류와 풍속계 설치시 기울어짐에 의해 풍속 data가 어떠한 영향을 받는가에 대하여 고찰하였다. 먼저 mast은 직경 4", 6" Pipe에 대하여 각각 실험하였고, 측정 mast의 방위각은 풍속에 평행한 방향을 $0^{\circ}$ 로 정하고 측정 mast 중심으로부터 $0^{\circ}{\sim}20^{\circ}$ 까지 $5^{\circ}$ 간격으로 측정하였다. 이 연구를 통해 실제 일정 두께를 갖는 mast에 설치되어 있는 풍속계에서의 풍속이 풍향에 대한 boom의 위치와 기울어짐에 따라 영향이 있음을 확인할 수 있었고, mast의 직경에 대한 영향도 크게 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 따라서, 본 연구의 결과를 이용하여 향후의 풍력자원 자료 측정설비의 설치상의 정확도 검증이나 혹은 측정된 자료의 보정등에도 광범위하게 이용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.685-691
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• 2013

A load-cell-type anemovane operates based on wind vector properties. The developed load-cell-type anemovane is of a fixed type in which the wing does not rotate, unlike in the case of existing anemovanes. The load-cell-type anemovane is required to accurately derive the correlation between the load ratio and the wind direction in order to develop a qualified product. This is because the load ratio repeats every $90^{\circ}$ owing to the use of four load cells, and its value varies nonlinearly according to the wind direction. In this study, we compared analytical results with experimental results. Fluid analysis was carried out using ANSYS CFX. Furthermore, the prototype was tested using a self-manufactured wind tunnel. The wind direction was selected as the design variable. 13 selected wind direction conditions ranging from $0^{\circ}$ to $90^{\circ}$ with an interval of $7.5^{\circ}$ for analysis were defined. Furthermore, 10 wind direction conditions with an interval of $10^{\circ}$ for the experiment were defined. We derived the relations between the pressure ratio and the wind direction through the experiment and fluid analysis.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.139-153
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• 2018

The sea surface wind field has long been obtained from satellite scatterometers or passive microwave radiometers. However, the importance of satellite altimeter-derived wind speed has seldom been addressed because of the outstanding capability of the scatterometers. Satellite altimeter requires the accurate wind speed data, measured simultaneously with sea surface height observations, to enhance the accuracy of sea surface height through the correction of sea state bias. This study validates the wind speeds from the satellite altimeters (GFO, Jason-1, Envisat, Jason-2, Cryosat-2, SARAL) and analyzes characteristics of errors. In total, 1504 matchup points were produced using the wind speed data of Ieodo Ocean Research Station (IORS) and of Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) buoys at Marado and Oeyeondo stations for 10 years from December 2007 to May 2016. The altimeter wind speed showed a root mean square error (RMSE) of about $1.59m\;s^{-1}$ and a negative bias of $-0.35m\;s^{-1}$ with respect to the in-situ wind speed. Altimeter wind speeds showed characteristic biases that they were higher (lower) than in-situ wind speeds at low (high) wind speed ranges. Some tendency was found that the difference between the maximum and minimum value gradually increased with distance from the buoy stations. For the improvement of the accuracy of altimeter wind speed, an equation for correction was derived based on the characteristics of errors. In addition, the significance of altimeter wind speed on the estimation of sea surface height was addressed by presenting the effect of the corrected wind speeds on the sea state bias values of Jason-1.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.3C
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• pp.295-301
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new mouthpiece model for the electronic wind instrument using a propeller and linear analysis for fast tracking wind velocity blown. This method is a modification of the velocity anemometer for fast tracking wind velocity by the propeller's angular velocity (speed of revolution). In the case of velocity anemometer, wind velocity is calculated using the property that wind velocity is in proportion to the propeller's angular velocity. However, wind velocity and angular velocity of the propeller are not in one-one correspondence because wind velocity takes some transitional time for the expected wind velocity to be calculated from angular velocity. To resolve this problem, we propose a method for finding the impulse response of the system which can be considered as a linear system, and for estimating the wind velocity by deconvolving the propeller's angular velocity with the impulse response. To experiment and to prove the validity of the proposed system, we designed a mouthpiece model which consists of a motor, a propeller and an encoder. The result of estimated wind velocity in this method showed that this system is about eightfold faster than the method by the conventional velocity anemometer.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 2011

Recently NMEA 2000 protocol is familiarized as a standard real time instrument network of SOLAS ship. This paper is studied to develop NMEA 2000 based two-dimensional ultrasonic anemometer which is core device for navigation as a sensor of wind speed and direction using ultrasonic including temperature and barometer. Developed system is connected to NMEA 2000 network which is composed of various kinds of merchandised NMEA 2000 device such as depth gauge, speed gauge, GPS device etc. to test connectivity with other NMEA 2000 device and functional test are carried out as weather station in comparison with other merchandised weather station which are developed advanced foreign company to ascertain usability as a weather station on board.

• 한국지구과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.133-133
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• 2010

인공위성 SAR센서는 기존 산란계 해상풍 자료의 낮은 해상도로 인한 여러 한계를 극복함으로써 다양한 해양연구에 있어 필요성과 활용영역이 넓어지고 있다. 이러한 추세에 따라 전세계적으로 다파장 SAR 센서들이 운용 또는 발사 예정에 있음에도 불구하고 현재까지 한반도 주변해에 대한 SAR 해상풍 산출 연구는 C밴드에만 한정되어왔다. 본 연구에서는 L밴드 해상풍 추출알고리즘을 적용하여 L밴드 SAR 영상으로부터 한반도 주변해의 해상풍을 추출하고 산란계 해상풍 자료와 비교 분석을 통해 정확도 특성을 제시하고자 하였다. 2007년 8월 우리나라 동해 지역을 관측한 L밴드 ALOS PALSAR 영상에 대해 L밴드 HH편광 GMF 알고리즘을 적용하여 해상풍을 산출하였다. 산출 해상풍은 동일시점의 산란계 QuikSCAT 자료와 공간적으로 유사한 패턴을 보였으며 두 자료 간의 풍속오차는 3.45m/s로 나타났다. 연구 해역과 같이 강한 바람 범위에서는 산출 해상풍 간의 차이가 크게 나타나며 풍향으로 인한 오차특성이 보인다. 특히 풍속의 경우, 산란계 해상풍이 중간바람 범위에 집중된 것에 비해 L밴드 SAR 산출 해상풍은 강한 바람 범위까지 포함하는 넓은 풍속값 범위를 나타냈다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.357-361
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• 2012

Anemometer is a meteorological instrument that measures wind direction and wind speed in real time, and is mounted to the cranes that are used at ports, shipbuilding yards, off-shore structure, or construction sites that are influenced by wind, and it is used in conjunction with the safety system. Load cell-type anemometer measures the wind direction through the ratio of load between 4 positions by mounting the thin plate to 4 load cells, and measures wind velocity through the summation of loads. In this study, we compared and analyzed the results in the theoretic approach, analytic approach and experimental approach to derive the correlation between load ratio and wind direction. Wind direction was selected as the design variable, and selected 9 wind direction conditions from $0^{\circ}{\sim}90^{\circ}$ with $11.25^{\circ}$ space for analysis, and 10 wind direction conditions with $10^{\circ}$ space for experiment.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.9
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• pp.929-936
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• 2015

Nacelle anemometers are mounted on wind-turbine nacelles behind blade roots to measure the free-stream wind speed projected onto the wind turbine for control purposes. However, nacelle anemometers measure the transformed wind speed that is due to the wake effect caused by the blades' rotation and the nacelle geometry, etc. In this paper, we derive the Nacelle Transfer Function (NTF) to calibrate the nacelle wind speed to the free-stream wind speed, as required to carry out the performance test of wind turbines according to the IEC 61400-12-2 Wind-Turbine Standard. For the reference free-stream wind data, we use the Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) measurement at the Shinan wind power plant located on the Bigeumdo Island shoreline. To improve the simple linear regression NTF, we derive the multiple nonlinear regression NTF. The standard error of the wind speed was found to have decreased by a factor of 9.4, whereas the mean of the power-output residual distribution decreased by 6.5 when the 2-parameter NTF was used instead of the 1-parameter NTF.