Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) Research Aviation Facility (RAF)

Airflow Analysis: Useful Publications

Baumgardner, D., 1984: The effects of airflow distortion on aircraft measurement: A workshop summary. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 65, pp. 1212-1213.

Beard, K. V., 1983: Reorientation of hydrometeors in aircraft accelerated flow. J. Clim. Appl. Meteor., 22, pp. 1961-1963.

Cooper, W. A. and D. Baumgardner, 1988: Meeting Review: Workshop on Airborne Instrumentation NCAR Technical Note TN-330+PROC, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 73 pp.

_______, and D. Rogers, 1991: Effects of airflow trajectories around aircraft on measurements of scalar fluxes. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 8, pp. 66-77.

Cruette, D., A. Marillier, J. L. Dufresne, J. Y. Grandpeix, P. Nacass, and H. Bellec, 2000: Fast temperature and true airspeed measurements with the airborne ultrasonic anemometer-thermometer (AUSAT). J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 8, pp. 66-77.

Drummond, A. M. and J. I. MacPherson, 1985: Aircraft flow effects on cloud drop images and concentrations measured by the NAE Twin Otter. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 2, pp. 633-643.

Eisele, F. L., R. L. Mauldin III, D. J. Tanner, J. R. Fox, T. Mouch, and T. Scully, 1997: An inlet/sampling duct for airborne OH and sulfuric acid measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 102, pp. 27,993-28,001.

Huebert, B. J., G. Lee, and W. L. Warren, 1990: Airborne aerosol inlet passing efficiency measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 95, pp. 16,369-16,381.

Kalogiros, J. A. and Q. Wang, 2002: Aerodynamic effects on wind turbulence measurements with research aircraft. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 19, pp. 1567-1576.

King, W. D., 1984: Air flow and particle trajectories around aircraft fuselages. I: Theory. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 1, pp. 5-13.

_______, D. E. Turvey, D. Williams, and D. J. Llewellyn, 1984: Air flow and particle trajectories around aircraft fuselages. II: Measurements. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 1, pp. 14-21.

_______, 1985: Air flow and particle trajectories around aircraft fuselages. III: Extensions to particles of arbitrary shape. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 2, pp. 539-547.

_______, 1986: Air flow and particle trajectories around aircraft fuselages. IV: Orientation of ice crystals. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 3, pp. 433-439.

_______, 1986: Air flow around PMS canisters. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 3, pp. 197-198.

Laucks, M. L., and C. H. Twohy, 1998: Size-dependent sampling efficiency of an airborne counterflow virtual impactor. Aer. Sci. and Tech., 28, pp. 40-61.

MacPherson, J. I. and D. Baumgardner, 1988: Airflow about King Air wingtip-mounted cloud particle measurement probes. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 5, pp. 259-273.

McFarland, A. R., C. A. Ortiz, M. E. Moore, R. E. DeOtte, Jr., and S. Somasundaram, 1989: A shrouded aerosol sampling probe. Environ. Sci. Tech., 23, pp. 1487-1492.

Murphy, D. M., and M. E. Schein, 1998: Wind tunnel tests of a shrouded aircraft inlet. Aer. Sci. Tech., 28, pp. 33-39.

Nacass, P. L., 1992: Theoretical errors on airborne measurements of static pressure, impact temperature, airflow angle, airflow speed. NCAR Technical Note TN-385+STR, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 61 pp.

Norment, H. G., 1985: Calculation of water drop trajectories to and about arbitrary three-dimensional lifting and non-lifting bodies in potential airflow. NASA Contractor Report 3935, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 166 pp. [NTIS N87-11694/3/GAR].

Norment, H. G., 1988: Three-dimensional trajectory analysis of two drop sizing instruments: PMS OAP and PMS FSSP. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 5, pp. 743-756.

Ram, M., S. A. Cain, and D. B. Taulbee, 1995: Design of a shrouded probe for airborne aerosol sampling in a high velocity airstream. J. Aer. Sci., 26, pp. 945-962.

Soderman, P. T., N. L. Hazen, and W. H. Brune, 1991: Aerodynamic design of gas and aerosol samplers for aircraft, Technical Memorandum 103854, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Twohy, C. H., 1998: Model calculations and wind tunnel testing of an isokinetic shroud for high-speed sampling. Aer. Sci. and Tech., 29, pp. 261-280.

Twohy, C. H. and D. Rogers, 1993: Airflow and water drop trajectories at instrument sampling points around the Beechcraft King Air and Lockheed Electra. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 10, pp. 566-578.

Weill, A. et al., 2003: Toward a better determination of turbulent air-sea fluxes from several experiments, J. Clim., 16, pp. 600-618.

Whitten, R. P., 1960: An investigation of some aerodynamic factors affecting meteorological instrument readings on a C130A research aircraft. Allied Research Associates, AFRD TN-60-454.

Wyngaard, J. C., L. Rockwell and C. A. Friehe, 1985: Errors in the Measurement of Turbulence Upstream of an Axisymmetric Body. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 2, pp. 605-614.

Wyngaard, J. C., 1988: The Effects of Probe-induced Flow Distortion on Atmospheric Turbulence Measurements: Extension to Scalars. J. Atmos. Sci., 22, pp. 3400-3412.